can anyone name more than 5 women who are an important aspect of the bible? I can think of about 3 or 4 yet the men number in the hundreds…is that because there were no bras in those days…so they couldnt burn them?..
Let’s see… Delilah, Sarah, Esther, Mary, Bathsheba, Eve, Martha, … there’s a bunch.
A
Abigail , Abihail, Abijah, Abishag, Abital, Achsah, Ada, Adah, Ahinoam, Ahlai, Aholah, Aholiamah, Aholibah, Aholibamah, Anammelech, Anna, Apphia, Asenath, Asherah, Ashtoreth, Atarah, Athaliah, Azubah
B
Bashemath, Bath-sheba, Bathshua, Bernice, Bilhah, Bithiah
C
Candace, Chloe, Claudia, Cozbi
D
Damaris, Deborah, Delilah, Diana, Diblaim, Dinah, Dorcas, Drusilla,
E
Eglah, Elisabeth, Elisheba, Elizabeth, Ephah, Ephratah, Ephrath, Esther, Ethiopian woman, Eunice, Euodia, Euodias
G
Gomer
H
Hadassah, Hagar, Haggith, Hammoleketh, Hamutal, Hannah, Hazelelponi, Hazzelelponi, Heifer, Helah, Hephzibah, Herodias, Hodesh, Hoglah, Huldah
I
Iscah, Ishtar,
J
Jael, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jehoaddan, Jehosheba, Jemima, Jerioth, Jerusha, Jezebel, Joanna, Jochebed, Judith, Julia, Junia(s)
K
Keren-happuch, Keturah, Kezia
L
Lapidoth, Leah, Lois, Lo-ruhamah, Lydia
M
Maachah, Magdalene, Mahalath, Mahlah, Mara, Martha, Mary, Mehetabel, Merab, Meshullemeth, Michaiah, Michal, Milcah, Miriam
N
Naamah, Naarah, Nagge, Naomi, Nehushta, Noadiah, Nymphas
O
Oholibamah, Orpah,
P
Peninnah, Persis, Phebe, Priscilla, Puah
R
Rachab Rachel, Rahab, Rebecca, Rebekah, Reumah, Rhoda, Rizpah, Ruhamah, Ruth
S
Salome, Sapphira, Sara, Sarah, Sarai, Serah, Sheerah, Shelomith, Shelomoth, Sherah, Shimeath, Shimrith, Shiphrah, Shomer, Shua, Shulamite woman, Succoth-benoth, Susanna, Syntyche, Syrophenician
T
Tabitha, Tahpenes, Tamar, Taphath, Timna, Tirza, Tirzah, Tryphena and Tryphosa
V
Vashti
Z
Zebudah, Zeresh, Zeruah, Zeruiah, Zibiah, Zillah, Zilpah, Zipporah
Shalom
Nice job Bob! I couldn’t quite muster the enthusiasm to respond. But you did a much better job anyway! =D>
Lol Bob, that was funny whether you meant it to be or not.
Bob, I’m interested in knowing what religion you are. You seem to know your information, although I rarely see you dive into the philosophical debates… I was wondering ‘if’ you were jewish if you’d inform me a little more as to why.
wow… i was just going off the top of my head but you dug up the census papers from back then…
Hi Club29,
I don’t really know how to answer you. I am a Christian mystic who reveres the Jewish background to Christianity and is very sceptical of fundamentalist Christianity. I believe that various Christian groups have taken on wrong values, become prophets of Mammon and have compromised themselves with allegiance to a system which upholds roughly the opposite values to what the Gospels tell us Christ held.
I believe that Christians should be political dissidents and peace activists, who in addition serve the poor and needy. I also see the Bible as an anthology of religious diversity which supports my first statement. Unfortunately, too few dissidents and peace activists are spiritual, and even less serve the poor and needy.
Shalom
I love you. That’s exactly how I’ve wanted to describe Christianity for a long time, but I didn’t really know how to phrase it.
I agree with most of what you’ve said. But one must be specific when dealing with activism and peace. Many people think Christians shouldn’t even vote against anything…because it’s taking away someone else’s right as a person? Then why does anyone vote in the first place? Either way your taking someone’s rights away, and so I see it as ridiculous concerning Christians voting for abortion…which may not be your case here with activist. But concering the war, if you saw your sister being raped, would you help her? It’s questions like these we must ask ourselves. Yes we should serve the poor and needy, basically, Christians should “SERVE”.
And that’s just the Old Testament.
Pope Joan, the first woman pope but erased through time.
the end.