“Women’s Issues and Concerns in the Old Testament”
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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.
Women’s Issues and Concerns in the Old Testament
The Status of Women in Israelite Society
Women and the Book of Deuteronomy
Studies on the Deuteronomic Concern for Women
The Deuteronomic Concern for Women
The Social Concern of Deuteronomy – Part 1
The Social Concern of Deuteronomy – Part 2
The Tenth Commandment (Deuteronomy 5:21)
Old Testament’s Deuteronomy Puts Women on Equal Footing
Ecclesiastes 7:28: Not One Upright Woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:28: In Search of a Better Translation
Ecclesiastes 7:28: Was Qoheleth a Misogynist? – Part 1
Ecclesiastes 7:28: Was Qoheleth a Misogynist? – Part 2
Women Who Proclaim the Good News
The Mutilation of Women in the Hebrew Bible – Part 1
The Mutilation of Women in the Hebrew Bible – Part 2
The Mutilation of Women in the Hebrew Bible – Part 3
Greg Boyd and the Practice of Ripping Open Pregnant Women
Studies on the Women Prophets in the Old Testament
Women Prophets in the Hebrew Bible
Child Sacrifice: More Violence Against Women
Women, Football, and Domestic Violence
The New NIV and Women in the Church
The Mystery Women of the Assyrian Empire
Women, Pants, and Deuteronomy 22:5 – Part 1
Women, Pants, and Deuteronomy 22:5 – Part 2
Women Wearing Pants: The Consequence
Studies on Old Testament Mothers
The Sons of Rizpah: Reflections on a Mother’s Love
A Woman Who Was Better Than Seven Sons
Witches and Witchcraft in the Bible
Solomon and the Two Prostitutes – Part I
Solomon and the Two Prostitutes – Part II
The Marginality of the Female Slave
Female Slaves in the Hebrew Bible
God and the Widows and Orphans
Sheerah: A Woman of Distinction
The Genealogy of Jesus According to His Great-Grandmothers
Do Women Really Want to Go Back to Patriarchy?
Patriarchy and the Problem of Honor Killing
Ideal and Dangerous Sisters in the Bible
The Seven Prophetesses of the Old Testament
Prophecy and the Spirit of God
The Nameless Prophetesses in the Book of Ezekiel
Female Tattooing in Ancient Egypt
Adam’s Sin: Listening To His Wife
Rape in the Hebrew Bible – Part 1
Rape in the Hebrew Bible – Part 2
The Creation of the Woman in Genesis 2:18-24
Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
Pregnancy Test in Ancient Egypt
Junia, the Apostle: Man or Woman?
A Woman Who Was Better Than Seven Sons
Gender Representation in Ancient Egyptian Art
A Case for Domestics Abuse: Another Perspective
The Complementarian-Egalitarian Divide
Revisiting Isaiah 50:1: The Problem of Divorce in the Old Testament
Tikva Frymer-Kensky: 1943 – 2006
The Creation of the Woman in Genesis 2:18-24
Searching for a Woman’s Voice in Psalms
All the Women of the Old Testament
Obscure Texts Sometimes Used to Diminish Women
Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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