Sean,
Not perhaps a reply to your exact question, but Hilary Bailey's 'The
Adventures of Hannie Richards' has her bringing out from a war-zone in the
face of various opposing interests the new Messiah: who is African and female.
But I can't think of many messiah-novels in which the messiah is female (it's
only one story in the aforementioned), even by women (maybe Parable of the
Sower): perhaps messianism as such is not something women aspire to? or
actually find a rather dubious proposition. (Thinking of the forces male
messiahs unleash in fiction and fact)
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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>But the Messiah-figure was still male! (and had 'natural' ?godgiven powers,
>unlike Jessica's which had had to be worked for, trained at)
>Lesley
>Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
Even so, Paul had to work to develop these powers or he never would have
known what to do with them. Jessica taught him what to do with them, a
natural role for a mother, I should think.
Would it have been more equal if the Messiah-figure were female?
Or would that just be a shift in power, not a balance?
-Sean
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