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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .06
Chapter 1 Eve: “Fall-girl”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .08
Chapter 2 Sarah: Mother of Nations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 3 Rebekah: Controversial Mother. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Chapter 4 Tamar: Table-turner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 5 Rahab: A Conspiracy of Prostitutes and Spies. . . . . . . . .66
Chapter 6 Deborah: Prophet, Judge, and a Sisterhood of Liberation. . 79
Chapter 7 Naomi and Ruth: Sisterhood in Adversity . . . . . . . . . . .91
Chapter 8 Hannah: The Woman Who Gave Away Her Son. . . . . .103
Chapter 9 Esther: The Right Woman, in the Right Place, at the Right Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Chapter 10 Mary: Revolutionary Mother of Christ. . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Chapter 11 The Woman at the Well: Breaking Conventions. . . . . .148
Chapter 12 The Woman with the Issue of Blood: From “Woman’s . . . .
Problem” to Public Miracle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Chapter 13 Martha and Mary: Conflicting Models of Service? . . . .173
Chapter 14 Mary Magdalene: A Much Misrepresented Woman. . . .186
Chapter 15 “Nympha and the Church in Her House…”. . . . . . . . .208
Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221
About the Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224
