Female take on the Bible

UPI reported yesterday on Marek Halter, who is publishing a “Feminine bible” trilogy of novels.
Halter, who is described as a “French-Polish writer, peace activist and Holocaust survivor,” wants to give biblical women their due through his three books, Sarah, Zipporah, and Lilah.
That’s right, Halter is a man. In the article Halter says that he sometime had difficulty writing from a woman’s point of view, but relied on daughters of friends for insight into the female mind.
So should Halter’s sex matter in his effort to give more recognition to the women in the Bible? Should his politics matter? (Fadela Amara, a French-Arab feminist, calls Halter a leader in the French anti-discrimination struggle.) Just asking…