Biblical Women : Females in a Patriarchal Society

There's no way to get around the fact that, in the Bible, women played a subservient role in what can only be described as a patriarchal society. And yet what an important role that was given the fact that, if nothing else, they were the mothers of those dominant men of whom we read so much in the sacred pages. Some thirty-nine of the most prominent women from the Old and New Testament are profiled in these short stories. Some are heroes, others are villains; some are saints, others are public sinners. There are touching stories of loving relationships that move the heart and there are tales that point out the vicious and vindictive nature of other relationships. Many of the women, like Mary the mother of Jesus, are well-known; others, like Jael and Judith, are far less famous. Still, the reader will find all of their lives to be interesting, intriguing and often very inspiring. Book jacket.

John F. Fink is the author of six other titles published by ST PAULS / Alba House: Married Saints (1999), a two-volume work on The Doctors of the Church of the First Millennium (2000) and The Doctors of the Church of the Second Millennium (2000), American Saints (2001), Letters to St. Francis de Sales: Mostly on Prayer (2002), and Jesus In the Gospels (2006)