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Mysteries Of The Bible, "Old Testament Heroines"

Mysteries Of The Bible, "Old Testament Heroines"

Sarah, the great matriarch...Esther, the queen...Deborah, the military commander...Ruth, the despised foreigner...Miriam, the prophetess. For countless generations, women the world over have patterned their lives after these heroines of the Hebrew Bible, looking to them for inspiration and examples of virtue. Yet what is the nature of female heroism in the Bible? Who are the flesh-and-blood women behind the sacred tales? How have they achieved immortality despite acts that seem to us to be morally questionable? Sarah banished a mother and child to almost certain death in the unforgiving desert; Esther used her feminine wiles to seduce a Persian King. These women are fully developed individuals, with great failings as well as great virtues. They still continue to inspire us with their sagas of survival against the odds.

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