A Friendly Guide to Women in the Old Testament

This Friendly Guide to Women in the Old Testament provides an easy-to-follow introduction to the stories of women in a range of Old Testament writings for readers of the twenty-first century. It presents an opportunity to explore biblical texts and characters that can be challenging to modern readers, and to discover their relevance and meaning today.

In all their diversity, the women in this book play a vital part in the history of salvation, the great story of God's involvement with humankind. The stories featuring these women have been considered as so important that they were told and re-told, written down, preserved over many centuries, and finally handed down to us as ”˜Word of God'.

This Friendly Guide demonstrates that, even though there are more male than female characters in the Old Testament, women are as significant in bringing about God's plans ”“ or in hindering them ”“ as are men, and sometimes even more.