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  1. Oct 6, 2023 · What this journey into some of the Bible’s most difficult stories reminded me more than anything was this: the Bible makes for uncomfortable reading. It doesn’t always provide neat answers or fit with the ideas we’d like to have of ourselves or of God. Sometimes you just have to sit and wrestle with that. But how you read the Bible matters.

    • Eve—The original baddie, she made the fatal-for-everyone mistake of listening to the serpent’s lie that God wasn’t telling the truth about the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
    • Jezebel—A Phoenician princess, she was married to Ahab, one of Israel’s worst kings. She worshipped Baal, who was heralded as the bringer of rain and prosperity.
    • Athaliah—She was the daughter of Ahab and probably also of Jezebel, the Bible’s wickedest queen. Married to the King of Judah, she grew paranoid after his death, murdering her grandchildren in order to secure the throne.
    • Herodias—The granddaughter of Herod the Great, she married two of her uncles, Herod Philip I and Herod Antipas. An ambitious and ruthless woman, she hated John the Baptist for thundering against her marriage to Herod Antipas, whom she had married after divorcing his half-brother Philip.
  2. Mar 30, 2021 · This new release is a timely rebuke to racism and sexism as well as a unifier--greatly needed in these times of uncertainty and division. Rooted and grounded in Scripture, the lives and times of sixteen women (Tamar, Rachel, Miriam, Hannah, Esther, Mary, Martha, and more) are examined as well as a number of nameless, notables (the woman at the well, the widow of Nain, etc).

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    • Why Not Women : A Biblical Study of Women in Missions, Ministry, and Leadership. by Loren Cunningham, David Joel Hamilton & Janice Rogers. I have read many books on this topic but this is by far the best one.
    • Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister (Library of Religious Biography (LRB)) by Edith L. Blumhofer. A Biography to put hands and feet to the historical account of one of the most famous female ministers of all-time in America.
    • Ten Lies the Church Tells Women: How the Bible Has Been Misused to Keep Women in Spiritual Bondage. by J. Lee Grady. The gospel was never intended to restrain women from pursuing God or to prevent them from fulfilling their divine destiny.
    • A Simple Path-Open Market. by Mother Teresa Mother Teresa. Whatever our views of Mother Teresa as a courageous missionary or a living saint, she has made a lasting impression.
  3. t. e. Women in the Bible are wives, mothers and daughters, servants, slaves and prostitutes. As both victors and victims, some women in the Bible change the course of important events while others are powerless to affect even their destinies. The majority of women in the Bible are anonymous and unnamed. Individual portraits of various women in ...

  4. Jul 17, 2024 · Cynthia Hester. Dr. Cynthia Hester teaches, writes, and speaks on topics of faith and women, both women in the Bible and church history. A graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary with a Doctor of Ministry (DMin, 2022), Cynthia writes at cynthiahester.com and is a contributing author to the book 40 Questions About Women in Ministry (Kregel, 2023).

  5. Twelve Extraordinary Women : How God Shaped Women of the Bible and What He Wants to Do With You (Hardcover) by. John F. MacArthur Jr. (shelved 5 times as women-of-the-bible) avg rating 4.11 — 6,167 ratings — published 2005. Want to Read. Rate this book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars.

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