New books spotlight women's leadership in New Testament (RNS) — ‘It’s not that we’re trying to rewrite history. It’s simply that women have been obscured,’ said Beth Allison Barr.

In fact, the New American Bible is made up of the same 39 books as the King James version, plus seven other books, namely: Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch.

Ben Witherington III, author of 60 books on the New Testament and the Gospels, teamed up with Jason A. Myers, associate professor of Biblical Studies at Greensboro College, to create “a field ...