Rewriting the Bible

When the Peoples' Bible was published my father and brother went around telling people that I wrote the bible - perhaps there was something to that since I receive both royalties and an author's discount on that publication.
I'm writing a new book, actually a two-volume series entitled A Womanist Midrash. It places it might be fair to say that I am rewriting the bible. In the last couple of days I have been so busy writing that I have not gone into Jerusalem or Bethlehem or taken any pictures. I thought that I would share with you all some of what I am (re)writing.
The following passage takes the instructions for a person afflicted with the skin disease usually translated as "leprosy" and rewrites them for a woman with the disease. The text makes it clear that both men and women (and houses for that matter) suffer this affliction but then writes the individual and communal response from and for the male perspective.
I have taken an assignment I gave my students to explore scripture through creative writing, employing metaphors and plot and character reversals and crafted a torah for a woman with a skin disease. The only departure from the traditional text (apart from changing the masculine language to feminine) is that I suggest that a bat-kohen, a priest's daughter actually did the physical inspection of a woman's body and consulted with her father (or husband or brother) who made the determination. (I could also add that the instruction was given to Miryam and Moshe since she is still alive inthe narrative...)

Here is the ritual of restoration for a woman previously diagnosed with skin-disease:

Leviticus 14:1 The Holy One of Old spoke to Moshe, saying: 2 This shall be the ritual for the woman with skin-disease at the time of her restoration:

She shall be brought to the priest (and a daughter of a priest); 3 the priest (and a daughter of a priest) shall go out of the camp, and the (daughter of a priest) shall make an examination. If the disease is healed in the woman with skin-disease, 4 the priest shall command that two living clean birds and cedarwood and crimson yarn and hyssop be brought for the woman who is to be restored. 5 The priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in an earthen vessel. 6 He shall take the living bird with the cedarwood and the crimson yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water. 7 He shall sprinkle it seven times upon the woman who is to be restored of the skin-disease; then he shall pronounce her restored, and he shall let the living bird go into the open field. 8 The woman who is to be restored shall wash her clothes, and shave off all her hair, and bathe herself in water, and she shall be restored. After that she shall come into the camp, but shall live outside her tent seven days. 9 On the seventh day she shall shave all her hair: of head, and eyebrows; she shall shave all her hair. Then she shall wash her clothes, and bathe her body in water, and she shall be restored.

10 On the eighth days she shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb in her first year without blemish, and a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of choice flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil. 11 The priest who restores shall set the woman to be restored, along with these things, before the Holy One of Old, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 12 The priest shall take one of the lambs, and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and raise them as an elevation offering before the Holy One. 13 He shall slaughter the lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered in the holy place; for the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest (and his family): it is most holy. 14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the woman to be restored, and on the thumb of her right hand, and on the big toe of her right foot. 15 The priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand, 16 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the Holy One. 17 Some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of the woman to be restored, and on the thumb of her right hand, and on the big toe of her right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. 18 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of the woman to be restored. Then the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the Holy One: 19 the priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for the woman to be restored from her distinction. Afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering; 20 and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. So the priest shall make atonement on her behalf and she shall be restored. 

21 But if she is poor and cannot afford so much, she shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be elevated, to make atonement on her behalf, and one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and a log of oil; 22 also two turtledoves or two pigeons, such as she can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 23 On the eighth day she shall bring them for her cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the Holy One of Old; 24 and the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall raise them as an elevation offering before the Holy One. 25 The priest shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering and shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the woman to be restored, and on the thumb of her right hand, and on the big toe of her right foot. 26 The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, 27 and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the restored woman. 28 The priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of the woman to be restored, and on the thumb of her right hand, and the big toe of her right foot, where the blood of the guilt offering was placed. 29 The rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of the woman to be restored, to make atonement on her behalf before the Holy One. 30 And she shall offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons such as she can afford, 31 one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering; and the priest shall make atonement before the Holy One on behalf of the woman being restored. 32 This is the ritual for the woman who has a skin-disease, who cannot afford the offerings for her restoration.