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The Woman's Bible is a two-part non-fiction book, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. [ 1] By producing the book, Stanton wished to promote a radical liberating theology, one that stressed ...
Tamar #1 – daughter-in-law of Judah, as well as the mother of two of his children, the twins Zerah and Perez. Genesis[ 190] Tamar #2 – daughter of King David, and sister of Absalom. Her mother was Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. II Samuel[ 191] Tamar #3 – daughter of David's son Absalom.
Among those with major roles for notable women from the Bible are Esther, [156] composed for private performance in a nobleman's home in 1718, revised into a full oratorio in 1732, Deborah, first performed at the King's Theatre in London on 17 March 1733, [157] Athalia, first performed on 10 July 1733 at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, [158 ...
Judith and Holophernes, by Michelangelo, ( Sistine Chapel, Vatican City) The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha.
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [ a] is a most likely pseudepigraphical [ 1] passage ( pericope) found in John 7:53 – 8:11 [ 2] of the New Testament . In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives. A group of scribes and Pharisees confronts Jesus, interrupting his ...
Woman of Shunem. Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Elisha and the Shunammite woman, 1649. The woman of Shunem (or Shunammite woman) is a character in the Hebrew Bible. 2 Kings 4:8 describes her as a "great woman" ( KJV) in the town of Shunem. Her name is not recorded in the biblical text.
The Three Marys (also spelled Maries) are women mentioned in the canonical gospels ' narratives of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. [1] [2] Mary was the most common name for Jewish women of the period. Saint Anne and her daughters, the Three Marys, Jean Fouquet. The Gospels refer to several women named Mary.
1810: The Christian Connection Church, an early relative of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ, ordained women as early as 1810. 1815: Clarissa Danforth was ordained in New England. She was the first woman ordained by the Free Will Baptist denomination.