“Women Who Proclaim the Good News”
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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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Northern Baptist Seminary
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Excellent post on how simple it is to see that women have been instrumental in proclaiming the good news of God throughout history! Unfortunately, I was never taught this before. This was so encouraging! Thank you for posting this.
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Stephanie,
I am glad you enjoyed the post. Be assured that women have been used by God to carry out His work in the world, both in ancient Israel and in the twenty-first century. And you are one of those women God has called into his ministry.
Claude Mariottini
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Delightful post. Thank you. I see that there are 58 shared roots between the two poems comprising 240 shared words of a total 607. I think if one is to read the Old Testament – and we must to mature, one should start with the Psalms. Enigmatic though they are when starting, they open up the rest of the OT in astonishing ways. Allusions to them are everywhere. Somehow we need to find translations that do not obscure the relationships. Of course they are the most referenced book in the NT also.
It is curious to me that a homonym for bśr is flesh. This good news is eventually about something other than a military victory. It is the incarnation – enfleshment – of love. And the victory is about our internal management of our own enemies and our own violence. My recent reading is in the prayer of Solomon at the bringing of the ark into the temple. This prayer eventually focuses on those internal issues (2 Chronicles 6:29) – Here’s my halting reading from yesterday of Solomon’s hope for this ‘house of prayer for all peoples’:
all prayer, all supplication, that will be, to all humanity and to all your people Israel,
anyone who knows their contagion and from sorrow, and spreads his palms to this house.
The key for me to the psalms is this transformation of ourselves, individually and together, to a people who know how to administer mercy because they have known its ministration to themselves.
There are Psalms (98, 132) reflected in this passage also.
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Bob,
Thank you for your comment and for the information on the shared elements between Judges 5 and Psalm 68. I agree with you about your comments on the book of Psalms. It is amazing the number of references in the Psalms to events in the early history of Israel.
I had an opportunity to briefly visit your site and I am impressed with your work. I will return to the site at a later time to read more about the work you have done on the text of the Hebrew Bible and music.
This summer I am revising my blog list and I am planning to include your site on my blogroll.
Claude Mariottini
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Thank you Claude this is such a wonderful post and brings beauty to the Word of God. Some denominations are so busy preaching gender roles they forget what is important and that is to proclaim the Good News. And why wouldn’t God want women to do this as well as men? It makes no sense. I will follow your blog and I am looking forward to reading more wonderful posts. I will also share this on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Rhonda,
Thank you for your nice words. The reason some denominations do not allow women to preach God’s Word is because they do not interpret the Bible correctly. If you read my posts on the women prophets in the Old Testament, you will discover that God has been using women for a long time. If God can use women to proclaim his word, why should we say that women cannot preach?
Thank you for your comment.
Claude Mariottini
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i appreciate this article, as one called by God to preach, i often receive from the brothers the verses in that “disqualify” women. But thanks be to God for His grace and His love .. I bless them and do not allow offense to disqualify me from obedience. Thank God for posts like this that encourage the daughters of God!
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Marlene,
Thank you for your nice words and thank you for your faithful ministry. Many people today have a wrong view about women in the ministry. God calls women and men to serve him and to proclaim his message to all people. If you look at the Archive section of my blog you will find a series of studies on the women prophets in the Old Testament. My post on “Prophecy and the Spirit of God” will also help you understand how God uses men and women in the ministry.
Be faithful to your call and do not allow anyone to tell you that God does not call women to the ministry.
Claude Mariottini
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Enjoyed reading every bit of this commentary. Very encouraging and informative. I agree that God uses more women to proclaim His victory over Satan. It is motivating us to obey His call to unleash the power of God on earth in this present world. God expects us, even women at kitchen can do this.
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Very thorough. Jehovah’s witnesses pride themselves in being thorough giving careful consideration to accuracy. Thanks Stella
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