ion through male dominated strictures of
             church government excluded female modalities of religious expression and
             interpretation from the Biblical canon. In other words, even though
             gospels giving prominence to female teaching such as the "Gospel of Mary
             Magdalene" may have existed at one time, these gospels, because the church
             synods were male dominated, were deemed heretical. Because even the
             gospels written by or in the voice women used written language, Shlain
             might argue, and because men dominate language for biological, cerebral
             reasons, women were never able to make religious claims of power within
             There is of course, the interesting and not-so radical suggestion,
             penned by the literary scholar Howard B
             ...