Description
The Bible includes many stories about women: some well-known, others lesser known; some named, others whose names are not given. In some of these stories, men are depicted negatively by the storyteller; in others men barely feature at all, except in the background or as powerful outsiders. All the compilers of these narratives were probably men, and all of them are set within an ancient world of patriarchal norms and conditions. And yet many of these narratives express the authentic voices of women, and in some cases the original sources will have been the women themselves. In Women in a Patriarchal World Elaine Storkey focuses on the stories of women who faced a range of challenges and life-changing decisions. Her investigations will lead you to fully appreciate the authenticity of these accounts. They will prompt you to see the connections with our own lives and times. And above all they will empower you to respond more faithfully and intelligently to the many challenges that women are still confronted with today. Provisional contents 1 Shiprah and Puah - Exodus 1.5-22 2 Miriam, Jochabed and a princess - Exodus 2/ Exodus 15 3 The five daughters of Zelophehad - Numbers 27 4 Rahab - Joshua 2.1-24 5 Deborah - Judges 4-5 6 Ruth - Ruth 1-3 7 Hannah - 1 Samuel 1-2 8 Abigail -1 Samuel 25 9 The wise woman of Abel Beth Maakah - 2 Samuel 20 10 Two mothers - 1 Kings 3 11 Huldah - 2 Chronicles 34 12 A Canaanite woman - Matthew 15 13 The wife of Pontius Pilate - Matthew 27.19 14 A woman with menstrual problems - Mark 5.25-34 15 The woman who anointed Jesus - Luke 7 16 Joanna - Luke 8.2-3 17 Mary of Magdala - Luke 8.23 18 A widow - Luke 21 19 The women at the tomb - Luke 24 20 Mary, mother of Jesus - John 2 21 A Samaritan woman - John 4.4-42 22 Martha - John 11 23 Lydia - Acts 16.14-15 24 Priscilla - Acts 18 25 Euodia and Synthyche - Philippians 4. 2-3