As the story of an abused foreign woman cast out into an inhospitable wilderness along with her son, the story raises troubling questions about the portrayal of domestic violence perpetuated by those otherwise celebrated as “faithful” within biblical narratives: Abraham and his wife Sarah. In ...
The Bible Never Calls Women “Daughters of the King” This “daughter of the king” theology (really heresy) has been taught for many years by both conservative and liberal Christian… Read More January 1, 2022 It Is a Sin for Wives to Be Jealous of Their Husbands Read More December 13...
The name is inspired by the biblical story of Isaac, who came to Sarah and Abraham later in life. Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 28 Sep. 2024 White lights glow in the shape of camels and magi, anchoring biblical scenes that tell the story of the birth of Jesus. Michael Salerno, The Ar...
“My husband only works when he feels like it. For six to seven months out of the year he refuses… Read More April 1, 2016 4 Steps to Dealing with a Lazy and Fraudulent Husband “My husband was involved in porn soon after our marriage and refused to have any kind of intimacy, not...
Edna, which means pleasure in Hebrew, is yet another of the biblical girl names that are derived from the Hebrew language. Edna is the mother of Sarah and the wife of Raguel in the Book of Tobit, which is found in both the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, and it has a biblical connection...
Rachel, Rebecca, Reuben, Ruth, Salome, Samson, Samuel, Sarah, Saul, Seth, Shadrach, Shem, Simeon, Simon, Solomon, Susanna, Tetragrammaton, ThaddeusorThadeus, Thomas, Tobit, Tubal-cain, Uriah, Virgin Mary, Zacharias, Zachariah,orZachary, Zebedee, Zebulun, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah, Zilpah...
of God. The book falls into two main parts: chapters 1–11, dealing with the primeval history, and chapters 12–50, dealing with the patriarchal narratives; the latter section is again divisible into the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (chapters 12–36) and the story of Joseph (...
Scott as the prophet Abraham, Ava Gardner as his wife Sarah, and Peter O’Toole as the three visiting angels. As with The Greatest Story Ever Told, Huston’s biblical epic was criticized for being overly long, slow-paced, and too reverent. However, unlike Stevens’s film, The Bible ...
reproduced repeatedly in the history of Israel andmanifesteddefinitively in Christ. This exegesis is elaborated at times by means of typology andallegory, as when Paul illustrates the relationship between law and gospel by the story of Hagar and Sarah, the concubine and wife of Abraham, respectively...
Jeremy Schipper is a Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at Temple University and an affiliated faculty member of Temple’s Institute on Disabilities. He is the author of Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible: Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story (T&T Clark). “This volume is a solid foundation ...