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The story of the Bible us most often told as the story of men, from patriarchs to prophets, kings, disciples and apostles. But women are there, sometimes in the background, sometimes striding powerfully onto the stage. Their stories are frequently moving, prophetic and often good news. Sometimes they experience appalling violence and abuse, which needs to be named. In some examples, their behaviour is less than appealing and power is misused - which needs acknowledgement and exploration.
In this volume, Bruce and Shercliff continue to explore the stories of the women of the bible, offering exegesis and comment, enabling preachers, and readers with a more general interest, to encounter and appreciate more of the female characters in scripture. Again, they seek to inspire imaginative approaches in preachers, combining commentary and homiletic textbook
Contents
Introduction
1 One who sees and lives: Hagar
2 God of the Traumatised: Lot's wife and daughters
3 God in the Muddle: Rebekah
4 Sisters, wives and servants: Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah
5 A daughter defiled: Dinah (Gen 34)
6 Sex-trading for Justice: Tamar, daughter-in-law of Judah
7 Vilified and Vindicated: Potiphar's Wife
8 Acting Above her Station: Zipporah
9 A dancing rebel: Miriam
10 Inheritance matters: Zelophehad's daughters
11 An ambiguous figure: Rahab
12 Women warriors: Deborah and Jael
13 A misunderstood migrant: Naomi
14 Raped, dismembered, remembered: the Levite's Concubine
15 A woman who challenges God: Hannah
16 A player or a pawn? Bathsheba
17 A desolate woman: Tamar, sister of Amnon and Absalom
18 Eloquence in word and action: the wise woman of Tekoa, the wise woman of Abel, Merab and Rizpah
19 A woman of substance: The Queen of Sheba
20 Wicked Women and an Unexpected Saviour: The Medium of Endor, Jezebel, Athaliah, Jehosheba
21 Nameless Presences: The wife of a prophet and the Shunamite woman
22 A slave in Syria, but a servant of God: Na'man's wife's maid
23 Caught up in power politics: Samson's wife, Delilah, Ahinoaam, Michal, Jeroboam's wife and Abishag
24 Prophetic Pictures in Partnerships: Gomer, Ezekiel's wife, mother of Isaiah's son, Shallum's daughters
25 Interrupting Power: Pilate's Wife
26 Daughters of Dysfunction: Herodias and Salome
27 She answered back: The Syrophoenician woman
28 Seen by Jesus: The widow with the two coins
29 A faithful prophet: Anna
30 Touched by Christ's compassion: Widow of Na'in
31 A daughter of Abraham: Women bent over for eighteen years
32 'Rejoice with me': The parable of the woman and the lost coin
33 The power of her testimony: The Woman at the well
34 'Some women' encounter God: Peter's mother in law , Women of Jerusalem, Sapphira Drusilla, and Bernice
Appendix - Sermon Series Suggestions
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