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For Sale Mar 30, 2026 at 8:08 PM

Fox Is Airing a Girlboss Version of the Old Testament. The Faithful: Women of the Bible has a whiff of feminism to it. Then I looked more closely.

Posted by paxinfernum

I Cover Religion. Even I Was Shocked by the New Fox Show About Women and the Bible.
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I Cover Religion. Even I Was Shocked by the New Fox Show About Women and the Bible.
We’re in a Bible-curious time for popular media.
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +22
I feel like this title was custom designed to be as irritating as possible.
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faultysynapse Mar 30, 2026 +34
LoL who the f*** thinks they're going to find a whiff of feminism in something based off the old testament, on Fox of all places?  Great way to grab some clicks I guess.
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Kind-Shallot3603 Mar 30, 2026 +5
This was on the main Fox channel....not Fox News
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faultysynapse Mar 30, 2026 +3
Oops. Fixed it.
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Kind-Shallot3603 Mar 30, 2026 -1
Noice
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HotBrownFun Mar 30, 2026 +4
Lot's daughters?
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bindersfull-ofwomen Mar 30, 2026 +4
I'm a huge fan of Judith Plaskow (Jewish theologian and feminist) and Wil Gafey (womanist and Bible scholar), and they center their theology around the women in the stories, and it's actually quite fascinating. However, reading that review of the Sarah story, it's not the same as the same framing the theologians come up with which would have been interesting. However, now it's on a paywall when I click back so I can't really point out my reasons why. There's a way to do it, but Minnie Driver playing a woman from Iraq is all you need to know about whether they handled this with care or not.
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TheNerdChaplain Mar 30, 2026 -1
Seconding Dr. Wil Gafney's work. More people should know about womanist theology (as opposed to ~~white European male~~ theology.)
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mcon96 Mar 30, 2026 -1
Does Esther not count? I left the church a while ago, but I can’t see much harm in having a tv special focusing on the women of the Old Testament. That’s like my last issue with organized religion. I feel like we have bigger fish to fry here.
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monsieurxander Mar 30, 2026 +1
They're doing the three generations of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel/Leah Not much progressive in any of those stories, especially that first one with all the slavery and r*** (literally the basis for The Handmaid's Tale).
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CancelThis2077 Mar 30, 2026 +5
\*sigh\* Jeffrey Donovan and Minnie Driver are too good to be doing this shit.
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Aggressive-Delay-420 Mar 30, 2026 +1
I last saw Driver in The Serpent Queen as Elizabeth I, and it wasn't all that great a work. She was great in Will & Grace as Karen's arch-nemesis, Loraine.
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paxinfernum Mar 30, 2026 +1
I heard someone describe it as Teenjus energy.
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bindersfull-ofwomen Mar 30, 2026 +2
Women in the Hebrew Bible are kinda fascinating and trickers and scandalous. They are not as docile as people think. Not all of them. It's really a soap opera of people that are dysfunctal that are whitewashed into the holy figures. They are just picking the wrong women. Give me Jezebel. Give me Jael. Ever read the story of Tamar? She married Er. He died. She had to get pregnant by his bloodline So she married Onan, his brother, who used the pull out method. So God killed him for not getting her pregnant (because the pull out method is tried and true, right?) Since his two sons died with her, Judah, their father, refused to let her marry his last son. So she dressed up like a sex worker and lured Judah into bed, got pregnant by him! She stole his belt and basically blackmails him into making her child a legitimate heir. THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO SEE.
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TheNerdChaplain Mar 30, 2026 -6
>We’re in a Bible-curious time for popular media. In the past year, star-studded animated movies about Jesus and the patriarch David each made more than $80 million in theatrical runs, proving biblical films can be powerful contenders at the box office. On streaming services, there have recently been a number of Scripture-based shows, including the Exodus comedy The Promised Land; Amazon’s sword-and-sandals fantasy series House of David; a coming Joseph of Egypt drama; and, most importantly, the mega-hit New Testament drama The Chosen, which proved to studios that there was a rabid market for faith-based content in the first place. Hard not to think of these shows as Zionist propaganda. The book of Genesis itself is lowkey ancient Near Eastern Manifest Destiny, so it's not surprising it's getting popular with some crowds right now.
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