Here are some of my favorite stories from Bible Women
I did not feel that it would be appropriate to do the reading assignment about the women in the Bible without including Eve. The story of Adam and Eve is such a well known one that I am not actually sure if I ever read it or just heard of it. The story went well with what I already knew and so I found it interesting that it did go so well with the stories that I have heard. I did not feel as if there were areas that I did not already know.
Sarah
The story of Sarah is quite fascinating. She was told that even though she was quite aged, she and her husband would have a son. She thought it was a joke and laughed about it but sure enough, she gave birth to a son, Isaac. His birth was so rare and so he was celebrated.
Hagar was the maid of Sarah. Sarah was not able to conceive at the time and so she told her husband to conceive a baby with Hagar. Sarah grew to dislike Hagar and told Abraham to send her and her son away. This story is interesting because even though Sarah told Abraham to have a baby with Hagar, she soon regretted that decision and took it out on Hagar. They sent away Hagar and her son.
This story involves Potiphar’s wife. It is odd that she does not have a name since she is so important to the story. She tries to get Joseph to sleep with her. When he refuses she tells everyone that he was the one trying to seduce her. She gets him thrown in prison. He basically goes to prison for doing the right thing and not giving in to Potiphar’s wife.
This story still shocks me every time I hear it. I never understood how Delilah would have been able to convince Samson to tell her the truth when it was obvious that she was the one who was betraying him. Every night that he tells her what his weakness is, he is attacked in the way that he tells her. She somehow still manages to convince him to tell her the truth and he is attacked and blinded.
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| Samson and Dalila by Mutter Erde. Web-source: Wikimedia Commons |
I read the story about Hagar too and was a little outraged with the outcome. Why tell your husband to go beget a son with some other woman if you're just going to become jealous and make her leave? Ridiculous. The same goes for the tale of Delilah. Some women are truly treacherous, but many stories about women from the bible make them all seem treacherous.
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