"study of women whose spoken words are recorded found 93, of which 49 women are named. The common, ordinary, everyday Hebrew woman is ""largely unseen"" in the pages of the Bible, and the women that are seen, are the unusual who rose to prominence. These prominent women include the Matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, Miriam the prophetess, Deborah the Judge, Huldah the prophetess, Abigail, who married David, Rahab, and Esther. A common phenomenon in the bible is the pivotal role that women take in subverting man-made power structures. The result is often a more just outcome than what would"
"Anna the Prophetess Anna (, ) or Anna the Prophetess is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The passage mentioning Anna is as follows: From these three verses in Luke, the following is known of Anna: Luke describes Anna as ""very old"". Many Bibles and older commentaries state that she was 84 years old. The Greek text states καὶ αὐτὴ χήρα ὡς ἐτῶν ὀγδοηκοντατεσσάρων,"
"Simeon and Anna. Anna the Prophetess Anna (, ) or Anna the Prophetess is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The passage mentioning Anna is as follows: From these three verses in Luke, the following is known of Anna: Luke describes Anna as ""very old"". Many Bibles and older commentaries state that she was 84 years old. The Greek text states καὶ αὐτὴ χήρα"
"Women in the Bible The women in the Bible are rarely mentioned by name, with named women representing only 5.5 to 8 percent of the total of all named characters, male and female. This suggests that women were not usually in the forefront of public life. Those women that are named, rose to prominence for reasons outside the ordinary. They are often an aspect of the over-turning of man-made power structures commonly found in a biblical literary device called a ""reversal."" Abigail and Esther, Jael who drove a tent peg into the enemy commander's temple while he slept, are a"
"Abish (Book of Mormon) According to the Book of Mormon, Abish () was a Lamanite woman who lived in the 1st century BC, and one of only three women named in the Book of Mormon (other than those who also appear in the Bible). She is mentioned in the narrative of the Book of Alma, and is notable as a figure in the dramatic narrative of the conversion of King Lamoni by the missionary Ammon. Abish plays a key role in the conversion of an entire kingdom of Lamanites (an ancient tribe in the Americas that had rejected a religion"
"generally translated as ""she was a widow of eighty four years"". The passage is ambiguous: it could mean that she was 84 years old, or that she had been a widow for 84 years. Some scholars consider the latter to be the more likely option. On this option, she could not have married younger than about age 14, and so she would have been at least 14 + 7 + 84 = 105 years old. The Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church commemorate Anna as a saint, Anna the Prophetess. The Eastern Orthodox Church considers Anna and Simeon the God-Receiver"
"Enoch went on to marry Edna, according to ""Jubilees"", and the sole named grandchild of Jared is Enoch's son Methuselah, the longest-living human mentioned in the Bible (, , ). Additionally, Jared was a forefather of Noah and his three sons. Jared's age was given as 962 years old when he died, making him the second-oldest person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, his age was 62 at fatherhood and only 847 at death, making Noah the oldest and Jared the seventh-oldest. Jared is also mentioned in Islam in the ""Qisas Al-Anbiya"", which mentions"
"Almah Almah ( ""‘almāh"", plural: ""‘ălāmōṯ""), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word for a young woman of childbearing age. Despite its importance to the Christian tradition of the virgin birth of Jesus, scholars agree that it has nothing to do with virginity. It occurs nine times in the Hebrew Bible. ""Almah"" derives from a root meaning ""to be full of vigour, to have reached puberty"". In the ancient Near East girls received value as potential wives and bearers of children: ""A wife, who came into her husband's household as an outsider, contributed her labor"
"converted by coming to see the miracle that had occurred. This event begins a chain of great conversion among the people of the Lamanites. Abish (Book of Mormon) According to the Book of Mormon, Abish () was a Lamanite woman who lived in the 1st century BC, and one of only three women named in the Book of Mormon (other than those who also appear in the Bible). She is mentioned in the narrative of the Book of Alma, and is notable as a figure in the dramatic narrative of the conversion of King Lamoni by the missionary Ammon. Abish"
"people's advanced ages. Abraham's wife Sarah is the only woman in the Old Testament whose age is given. She was 127 (). Chapter 2 of ""Falun Gong"" by Li Hongzhi (2001) states, ""A person in Japan named Mitsu Taira lived to be 242 years old. During the Tang Dynasty in our country, there was a monk called Hui Zhao [慧昭, 526–815] who lived to be 290 [288/289] years old. According to the county annals of Yong Tai in Fujian Province, Chen Jun [陈俊] was born in the first year of Zhong He time (881 AD) under the reign of Emperor"
"when Jesus is 12 years old, found only in Luke. No mention is made of him thereafter. The story emphasizes Jesus' awareness of his coming mission: here Jesus speaks to his parents (both of them) of ""my father,"" meaning God, but they fail to understand.(). Christian tradition represents Mary as a widow during the adult ministry of her son. Joseph is not mentioned as being present at the Wedding at Cana at the beginning of Jesus' mission, nor at the Passion at the end. If he had been present at the Crucifixion, he would under Jewish custom have been expected"
"church commemorates her together with Martha and Lazarus on 29 July. Mary, the wife of Clopas, is named only once in the New Testament, in , where she is listed as one of four women standing by the Cross, the others being Mary the mother of Jesus, her sister (or perhaps cousin, the Aramaic words being the same), and Mary Magdalene. An alternative reading is that the list is of only three women, and that Mary of Clopas is also the sister (or cousin) of Mary the mother of Jesus, as some traditions maintain. The passage could also be interpreted"
"recounts the history of God's formation of the Israelite nation, beginning with ""Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, [who] lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods."" states that Terah lived 70 years, and he begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran. Rashi comments on the subsequent elaboration on the story of Abraham that Abraham was the gem of the chronology of Genesis 11 which the Torah wanted to focus on. In the Jewish tradition, Genesis (11:26) teaches that Terah was 70 years old when he begat Abram. The Talmud says that Abraham was 52 years old at year 2000"
"Bethuel, but he is dead; and Laban is my brother; and, together with my mother, takes care of all our family affairs, and is the guardian of my virginity."" The parashah is discussed in these rabbinic sources from the era of the Mishnah and the Talmud: A Midrash noted that recorded that ""the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years"" rather than ""one-hundred-twenty-seven years,"" and deduced that as the righteous are whole and unblemished by sin, so are their years reported whole in the Bible. Thus the Midrash taught that at the age of 20, Sarah"
"event because Jochebed was spared the pain of child-bearing due to both her and Amram's piety. The Haggadah extends this miraculous nature to Moses' conception by marking as 120 the age of Jochebed at conception. Several rabbinic commentaries attest to this and comment that maidenhood was restored to Jochebed at the time of her marriage to Amram. The restoration of maidenhood also included the resumption of her fertility. Textual scholars attribute the genealogy to the Book of Generations, a hypothetical document originating from a similar religiopolitical group and date to the priestly source. According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy"
"and her fertility ... [h]er task was to build up the ""bet 'ab"" by bearing children, particularly sons"" (Leeb, 2002). Scholars thus agree that ""almah"" refers to a woman of childbearing age without implying virginity. The word ""almah"" occurs nine times in the Hebrew Bible: Almah Almah ( ""‘almāh"", plural: ""‘ălāmōṯ""), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word for a young woman of childbearing age. Despite its importance to the Christian tradition of the virgin birth of Jesus, scholars agree that it has nothing to do with virginity. It occurs nine times in the Hebrew"
"as a daughter of Levi, when Levi was 64 years old. Jochebed is identified by some rabbis in the Talmud with Shiphrah, one of the midwives described by the book of Exodus as being ordered by Pharaoh to kill the new-born male children. In making this identification, the rabbis interpret the ""houses"", with which the Book of Exodus describes God as having compensated the midwives, as having been those of priesthood and of royalty; these ""houses"" are interpreted by the Talmudic rabbis as allegorical references to Jochebed's sons—Moses and Aaron respectively. The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed"
"reference to the mystical interpretation of the teachings of Jesus and the place and role of women in the Bible era. Her latest book is ""A Woman's Worth, The Divine Feminine in the Hebrew Bible."" Whitehouse's 2007 book ""The Marriage of Jesus"" explored the social and economic times in which Jesus lived. Her theory is that Jesus would have married, like any other young man of his times, at the age of approximately 14. Working from historical knowledge of the times (and referring to Suzanne Dixon's book ""The Roman Mother"") Whitehouse begins from the premise that the average lifespan of"
"Rhoda (biblical figure) Rhoda (""Gk"" ˁΡόδη) is a woman mentioned once in the New Testament. She appears only in Acts . Rhoda (whose name means ""Rose"") was a girl () living in the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark. Many biblical translations state that she was a 'maid' or 'servant girl'. After Peter was miraculously released from prison, he went to the house and knocked on the door. Rhoda came to answer it, and when she heard Peter's voice she was so overjoyed that she rushed to tell the others, and forgot to open the door for him."
"Mary was given to service as a consecrated virgin in the Temple in Jerusalem when she was three years old, much like Hannah took Samuel to the Tabernacle as recorded in the Old Testament. Some apocryphal accounts state that at the time of her betrothal to Joseph, Mary was 12–14 years old, and he was ninety years old, but such accounts are unreliable. According to ancient Jewish custom, Mary could have been betrothed at about 12. Hyppolitus of Thebes claims that Mary lived for 11 years after the death of her son Jesus, dying in 41 AD. The earliest extant"
"28:9), on which Rashi, quoting Megillah 17a, notes that Ishmael died between the engagement and wedding, so the girl's brother gave her away. If Ishmael was 137 at the time of his death, this means that Jacob and Esau were 63 at the time of the blessings. The Talmud adds that Jacob spent 14 years in the yeshiva of Shem and Eber before proceeding to Laban, arriving when he was 77. Rebecca's death after Jacob's 20 years with Laban indicates that Jacob was 97 when his mother died and Rebecca was either 120 or 134 (based on different Midrashim mentioned"
"Deborah According to the Book of Judges, Deborah (, ""Devora"", ""Bee"") was a prophetess of Yahweh the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel and the only female judge mentioned in the Bible, and the wife of Lapidoth. Deborah told Barak that Yahweh commanded him to lead an attack against the forces of Jabin king of Canaan and his military commander Sisera (Judges 4:6–7); the entire narrative is recounted in chapter 4. Judges chapter 5 gives the same story in poetic form. This passage, often called ""The Song of Deborah"", may date to as early as the"
"The Old Testament's prophets referred to Israel as a ""woman"" (Isaiah 54:5-6; Jeremiah 4:31; Micah 4:9-10). The woman flees into the wilderness where she is nourished for 1260 days, the equivalent of three and a half years or forty-two months (cf. Rev. 11:1-3). According to this interpretation, these terms are used prophetically in Scripture either for the first half or the last half of the ""Seventieth Week of Daniel,"" in Daniel 9:24-27, a prophecy specifically addressed to Daniel and his people, Israel (Dan. 9:24). In the latter part of the seventieth week, a remnant of Israel will flee into the"
"""El-roi"", (""Thou God seest me:"" KJV). From that day onward, the well was called Beer-lahai-roi, (""The well of him that liveth and seeth me."" KJV margin). She then did as she was instructed by returning to her mistress in order to have her child. Abram was 86 years of age when Ishmael was born. Thirteen years later, when Abram was 99 years of age, God declared Abram's new name: ""Abraham"" – ""a father of many nations"". Abraham then received the instructions for the covenant, of which circumcision was to be the sign. God declared Sarai's new name: ""Sarah"", blessed her,"
"Joel B. Green writes of the Parable of the Leaven that Jesus ""asks people — male or female, privileged or peasant, it does not matter — to enter the domain of a first-century woman and household cook in order to gain perspective on the domain of God."" The canonical Gospels offer only one story about Jesus as a boy—Luke's story about the boy Jesus in the Jerusalem Temple. According to Luke, his parents, Joseph and Mary, took the 12-year-old Jesus to Jerusalem on their annual pilgrimage to the Passover. Mary and Joseph started their journey home without Jesus, thinking he"
"Naamah (Genesis) Naamah ( ""Na‘ămāh"") is an individual mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in . A descendant of Cain, she was the only mentioned daughter of Lamech and Zillah and their youngest mentioned child; her brother was Tubal-cain, while Jabal and Jubal were her half-brothers, sons of Lamech's other wife Adah. Gordon Wenham notes that the reason ""she should be picked out for special mention remains obscure"", while R. R. Wilson suggests that the narrator simply wished to offer a balanced genealogy by noting that both of Lamech's wives had two children. The early Jewish ""midrash"" Genesis Rabba (23.3) identifies"
"that this is the only reference in New Testament to ""a ""daughter"" of Abraham."" They conclude that Jesus spoke of this woman as though she belonged to the family of Abraham just as much as did the ""sons"" of Abraham. Jesus presented women as models of faith to his listeners. In the culture of the day, women were neither to be seen nor heard since they were considered ""corrupting influences to be shunned and disdained."" The story of a poor widow's casting of ""two copper coins"" into the Temple treasury appears in and in . What a poor widow gave"
"World. Bede details the First Age, from Adam to Noah, as being 1,656 years long according to the Hebrew Bible or 2,242 years according to the Septuagint. The Second Age, from Noah to Abraham, is 292 years or 272 years long based on Bede's evaluation of the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint respectively. The Third Age is said to be 942 years long according to both the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint spanning from the Abraham to David. The Fourth age is from David until the Babylonian exile. This is 473 years according to the Hebrew Bible or 485 according to the"
"the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod remembers her on October 25, while the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church place her feast day as September 3. Phoebe (biblical figure) Phoebe (Koine Greek ) was a first-century Christian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, verses . A notable woman in the church of Cenchreae, she was trusted by Paul to deliver his letter to the Romans. Paul refers to her both as a deacon (Gk. ""diakonon"") and as a helper or patron of many (Gk. ""prostatis""). This is the only place in the New Testament where"
"Eve Frank Eve Frank or Eva Frank (1754 – 1816 or 1817), born in Nikopol, Ottoman Empire (now Bulgaria) under the name Rebecca or Rachel, was a Mystic cult leader, and the only woman to have been declared a Jewish messiah. She was the daughter of Jacob Frank, the claimant to the position of Jewish Messiah in the 18th century, and, allegedly, Sophie Ascania/Catherine the Great. Eve Frank received the name of Eve in 1760 upon the conversion of her family to Catholicism. For much of her life, she accompanied her father during his travels and after the death of"
"his knowledge of their faith. Lois has often been used as an example for Christian grandmothers. Dale Evans Rogers suggests that ""her example, her teachings, and her faith"" were strong influences in Timothy's life. Lois (Bible) According to the New Testament, Lois was the grandmother of Timothy. According to extrabiblical Tradition, she was born into the Jewish faith, and later accepted Christianity along with her daughter Eunice. Her only biblical mention is in 2 Timothy 1:5, where the author tells Timothy, ""I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother"
"""how Christian adaptations of comedic tropes challenged the dominant cultural construction of status and gender, of ecclesial authority, slaves, and women."" Chambers connects this story to the fulfilment in Acts 2 of the prophecy of Joel 2 that women and slaves would prophesy. Although ""Rhoda lacked the necessary authority to have her message taken seriously because of her status of both woman and slave,"" she had enough courage and faith to keep insisting that it was Peter. Rhoda (biblical figure) Rhoda (""Gk"" ˁΡόδη) is a woman mentioned once in the New Testament. She appears only in Acts . Rhoda (whose"
"highly patriarchal times throughout the Old Testament. The most common term for prophet in the Old Testament is ""nabi"" in the masculine form, and ""nebiah"" in the Hebrew feminine form, is used six times of women who performed the same task of receiving and proclaiming the message given by God. These women include Miriam, Aaron and Moses' sister, Deborah, the prophet Isaiah's wife, and Huldah, the one who interpreted the Book of the Law discovered in the temple during the days of Josiah. There were false prophetesses just as there were false prophets. The prophetess Noadiah was among those who"