Delilah, ruthless
Tamar, justice
Dinah, raped
Hagar, slave girl
Leah, unloved
Stories of women survivors in the Bible
… like the Adulterous woman saved by Jesus. Or Delilah – Samson’s downfall! Or Dinah, tragic victim of male violence. Or the great mother Eve. Or the Egyptian slave girl Hagar. Or the human sacrifice Jephtah’s daughter. Or the lonely, unloved Leah. Or the viciously murdered Levite’s concubine. Or the real Mary Magdalene. Or the piteous Woman with an issue of blood. Or Potiphar’s lonely, lustful wife. Or the desperate Syro-Phoenician Mother. Or Tamar insisting on justice from Judah. Or the Crippled Woman and Jesus. Or Pilate’s Roman Wife.
Extra links, Bible texts, the Bible world
Adulterous woman & Jesus Her story in John’s gospel Attitudes to woman
Crippled Woman and Jesus The story in Luke’s gospel Medicine in the ancient world
Delilah – Samson’s nemesis Delilah’s world Delilah: the Bible text
Eve Bible text Eve in mythic pre-history
Hagar Hagar: the Bible text Women slaves in the Bible
Jephtah’s daughter The Bible text Women’s festivals, human sacrifice
Leah, love and loneliness Michelangelo’s Leah
Levite’s concubine Murders in the Bible
The real Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene’s story The world of the gospels
Menstruating Woman Menstruation & purity laws The gospel texts
Pilate’s Wife Pilate’s wife in Matthew’s gospel Death sentence for Jesus
Potiphar’s wife: a story of lust & loneliness the Bible text Women in ancient Egypt Potiphar’s wife: famous paintings
Syro-Phoenician Woman: a mother’s prayer answered