“Miriam the Prophetess”
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Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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Those Amazing Women of Ancient Israel
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Those Amazing Women of Ancient Israel
Part 1
Israel’s Social Concern for Women
Chapter 2 Israel’s Concern for Women
Chapter 3 The Status of Women in Israelite Society
Chapter 4 The Deuteronomic Concern for Women
Chapter 5 The Tenth Commandment (Deuteronomy 5:21)
Chapter 6 The Law of the Hebrew Slave
Part 2
Women Prophets
Chapter 7 Women Prophets in the Old Testament
Chapter 8 Miriam the Prophetess
Chapter 9 Deborah the Prophetess
Chapter 10 Isaiah’s Wife
Chapter 11 Huldah, A Prophet in Israel
Chapter 12 Noadiah the Prophetess
Chapter 13 The Nameless Prophetesses in the Book of Ezekiel
Chapter 14 The Seven Prophetesses of the Old Testament
Chapter 15 Women Who Proclaim the Good News
Chapter 16 The Daughters of Heman
Chapter 17 “Your Daughters Shall Prophesy”
Part 3
The Mothers of Israel
Chapter 18 Sarah: A Mother in Her Old Age
Chapter 19 Hagar: The Surrogate Mother
Chapter 20 Rachel: The Struggles of a Barren Woman
Chapter 21 Moses’s Two Mothers
Chapter 22 Sisera’s Mother: The Humanization of the Enemy
Chapter 23 Samson’s Mother: A Mother’s Disappointment
Chapter 24 Hannah: “The Barren Has Borne Seven”
Chapter 25 Rizpah: Reflections on a Mother’s Love
Chapter 26 Bathsheba: A Mother with Determination
Chapter 27 Solomon and the Two Mothers
Chapter 28 Jeroboam’s Wife: A Mother’s Agony
Chapter 29 Jesus’s Great-Grandmothers
Chapter 30 The Other Great-Grandmothers of Jesus
Chapter 31 Jezebel: A Great-Grandmother of Jesus
Chapter 32 The Genealogy of Jesus According to His Great-Grandmothers
Part 4
Abused Women
Chapter 33 Dinah, the Daughter of Jacob
Chapter 34 Tamar, the Wife of Er
Chapter 35 The Levite’s Concubine
Chapter 36 Bathsheba, the Wife of Uriah
Chapter 37 Tamar, the Daughter of David
Part 5
Women of Distinction
Chapter 38 Rahab: A Prostitute or an Innkeeper?
Chapter 39 Deborah, A Judge in Israel
Chapter 40 Jael: A Heroine in Israel
Chapter 41 Ruth, the Moabite
Chapter 42 Ahinoam, the Mother of Amnon
Chapter 43 Abishag, the Shunammite
Chapter 44 The Greatness That Was Jezebel
Chapter 45 Esther, the Queen of Persia
Bibliography
Index of Scriptures
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Index of Hebrew Words
I hope you will enjoy reading the book and develop a new appreciation for these amazing women of Ancient Israel.
Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
Claude Mariottini
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I enjoyed the post, but how do we know the unnamed sister is Miriam and not another sister?
Thank you,
Wellington
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Dear Dr Mariottini,
I appreciate your explanation: “The answer is found in 1 Chronicles 6:3, where it says that Amram had three children: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam.” Numbers 26:59 also affirms that Jochebed is the mother of all three.
I still doubt the identification because of three questions:
1. Does the grammar of these two verses explicitly limit the number of children that Amram and Jochebed had?
2. Might the order Aaron, Moses, and Miriam represent their birth order? Aaron is older than Moses (Ex 7:7). When I look at the verses, I find myself wondering whether Miriam is younger than both Aaron and Moses.
3. Why assume the sister of Exodus 2 is Moses’ sister germain?
Thanks again,
Wellington
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Wellington,
If Miriam is younger than Moses, then Amram and Jochebed had four children, but the Bible consistently affirms that they had only three children. If this is so, then Miriam has to be older than Moses. To say that Miriam is younger than Moses is to go against the biblical text which says that Amram and Jochebed had only three children. This is the reason the nameless sister in chapter 2 of Exodus has to be Miriam.
Claude Mariottini
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Your post has reaffirmed the convictions that I felt over the years that singing in tongues which The Lord gifted me for over 25 years, and has reached a great level, is prophetic. Also, in the various areas which we classify as arts, such as music, singing, dancing, drawings, painting, etc, we can be prophetic, when under the inspiration and guiding of the Spirit. Several years ago, at the time that I begun giving verbal words (oracle) prophesies and words of knowledge, I was divinely inspired to dabble with music, and I went about making a kind of music which I called G.Mulesic. I still remember at times I could feel a kind of warm coming over me in my making of the music. And then at about the same time, I kept getting songs, some of which I felt strongly they were to be released as prophesy in song to church congregation. However, the most the church would permit then, was that I read out the lyrics of the song, and not sing it.
All along I was not a musically inclined person, and in the past, was said to be tone-deaf and could NOT hold a tune. But I love to worship in singing to The Lord, and The Lord honored with gift of singing in tongues, and I believe then, more than 25 years ago, I was one of a handful of people in Singapore who sung in tongue publicly in congregational worship. Today, I still do that, my level of singing has broken levels after levels. The making music side I have stopped sometimes now, maybe one day it will be resurrected. But my music “sense” has improved, and my normal English singing, too. In fact, I could pick up the tune of song, faster than many. I could pick up the tune of a new song being sung in church, in its first singing; this definitely has been a gifting God gave, based on what I know I was hopeless with. Today, I don’t lead church service worship from the worship team side, but I lead from the congregation side. Along with these prophetic elements, I move in healing; at times, prophetic healing, since I would give words of knowledge on sickness conditions of people before praying and ministering to them. Between The Lord and I, in the long ago past, I counted myself as “The Loud One”, for I could sing in tongues louder than people using a mike; then several years back before I move into the healing ministry, I had conviction that I would be a singing healer for The Lord. Today, I sing, very good in tongues, ok in English, and I minister healing, but the precise combination of how the two are to mesh together, in my being a singing healer, I am still not sure. May The Lord reveal in His time.
Thank you for writing about music making and singing to The Lord was viewed prophetic, when done under the inspiration of the Spirit. When we worship in spirit and in truth, how can we not be. Interestingly, with DNA mappings discovery and works, it is now possible to pass the mappings through music generator and hear the unique music that each mapping makes. Animals and men have different DNA mappings, and there is difference in DNA for each person; we are all a unique song unto the Creator, a prophetic song unto The Lord.
Anthony Chia, high.expressions – http://www.high-expressions.blogspot.com
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Anthony,
God bless you and your ministry of music.
Claude Mariottini
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