“Tamar, the Victim of Rape”

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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

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