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Women of the Bible

The women of Scripture, studied carefully

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Each study opens with the exact passages, read in your own translation. The explanation comes after the text, and it keeps three things apart: what Scripture says, what it allows us to infer, and what it simply does not tell us.

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  • Deborah

    Old Testament · Judges, Hebrews

    and 5 read together, prose and poem, with attention to what the text says about her office, Barak's request, and the God who is the subject of the song.

  • Esther

    Old Testament · Esther

    Esther read in its Persian setting, the reversals that structure the book, and how to speak carefully about providence in a book where God is not mentioned.

  • Hannah

    Old Testament · 1 Samuel, Luke

    and 2 read in place, her song as theology rather than sentiment, and the themes it shares with Mary's words in .

  • Miriam

    Old Testament · Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Micah

    Her four appearances in the Pentateuch, the song at the sea, the events of , and the place she holds in .

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Learning paths

  • Women named in the line of Christ

    names four women in the genealogy before Mary. Two of them have written studies here, and the trail follows the line from the promise to Abraham down to the birth in .

    Their accounts are not variations on one theme. Rahab confesses the LORD before Israel enters the land; Ruth acts under the law of . Matthew names them without explaining why, and this path does not supply a motive the text withholds.

    • . Her confession about the LORD, before the city falls.
    • . The redemption completed, and a son born to the line.
    • . The book ends by naming David.
    • . Both women named in the descent to Christ.

  • Songs of reversal

    Two women sing about a God who overturns the order of the world, centuries apart. Reading them together shows how much they share about God's character.

    Hannah's song looks forward to a Israel does not yet have, . Mary sings because the is already coming. Luke never names Hannah, so the connection rests on the overlap itself, not on a citation.

    • . The poor raised from the dust.
    • . A king and an anointed one, before Israel has either.
    • . The mighty put down, the lowly exalted.
    • . Her song ends in the mercy promised to Abraham.

  • Waiting without an answer

    Several accounts here involve years of waiting that Scripture never explains. Read together, they close off the idea that unanswered means God is displeased.

    The outcomes differ sharply. Sarah and Hannah and Elizabeth receive children; Anna's long widowhood is never reversed, and Luke still records her life as service. The pattern is not a formula.

    • . The promise given anyway.
    • . Grief brought to God without arranging it.
    • . Righteous and childless in consecutive verses.
    • . Decades of fasting and prayer, and no reversal recorded.

Still being written

Named now, studied later

These accounts are not linked yet, because a thin page is worse than an honest wait. The passages are here so you can read them now.

  • Jael ·
  • Naomi ·
  • Abigail ·
  • Bathsheba ·
  • Tamar ·
  • Rebekah ·
  • Rachel and Leah ·
  • Huldah ·
  • Mary Magdalene ·
  • Martha of Bethany ·
  • Mary of Bethany ·
  • The Samaritan woman ·
  • Lydia ·
  • Priscilla ·
  • Dorcas ·
  • Lois and Eunice ·