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Bathsheba and King David: passion, murder, intrigue

 Deborah and Jael: they faced a fearsome enemy, and defeated him Delilah the temptress who found out Samson's secret Esther: risked everything to save her people
Bathsheba
King David's wife		 Deborah 
& Jael
Warrior/judge		 Delilah
Samson's nemesis		 Esther
Saved her people

Mary, mother of Jesus Christ

Mary Magdalene, cured by Jesus, stood by him to the bitter end, and witnessed the Resurrection

Martha and Mary, two sisters who knew Jesus; he raised their brother Lazarus
Mary
Jesus' mother		 Magdalene
Loyal to the end		 Martha & Mary
Two sisters
      

 

 

 
 

Eve who made the wrong choice; or was it the right one?

Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian slave give who became the mother of Ishmael

Jephtah's daughter, a human sacrifice because of her father's foolish vow

 Jezebel, ruthless queen of Israel but loyal wife of Ahab

Eve
First 
woman

 Hagar
Slave girl		 Jephtah's
daughter
Sacrificed		 Jezebel
Ruthless queen

Elizabeth, cousin of Mary and Jesus, and mother of John the Baptist

The Samaritan woman who argued with Jesus then told others about him

The wife of Pontius Pilate who warned her husband not to kill Jesus
Elizabeth
Mother of John Baptist		 Samaritan
Woman
She argued		 Wife of Pilate
Her dream
 
 

Judith hacked off the head of her enemy Holofernes

Miriam, sister of Moses, leader of Hebrew women

Potiphar's wife, Joseph's passionate temptress in the Bible

Rachel and Jacob, the Bible's great love story, but no happy ending
Judith
Executioner		 Miriam
Leader of women		 Potiphar's wife
Temptress		 Rachel
Love story

The Women Bent Over who was cured by Jesus

The woman with continual menstruation who was cured by Jesus

The woman taken in adultery who met Jesus in the Temple courtyard
Crippled Woman
Cured 		 Menstruating
Woman
The miracle

Adulterous Woman
The first stone
 
 

Rebecca's steely ambition for her son Jacob

Ruth, Bible woman, rewarded for her loyalty to Naomi

Sarah, fore-mother of Abraham's descendents

 Tamar and Judah: her fight for justice, no matter what

Rebecca
Ambition

Ruth
Loyal friend

 Sarah
Fore-mother 

Tamar
Justice!
 

Dorcas or Tabitha, raised from the dead by Peter's miracle

Prisca-Priscilla, early Christian woman who helped St Paul

Dorcas/Tabitha
Raised from death

Prisca/Priscilla
Co-founder of 
the Church
   
 

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Women in  the Bible - Old and New Testament Stories, Bible Study Resource 
Eve,  Sarah:Bible Text, Sarah, Hagar, Rebecca, Rachel, Tamar, Potiphar's Wife, Miriam, Deborah and Jael, Jephtah's Daughter, Delilah, Bathsheba, Jezebel, Ruth, Esther, Judith,
Mary of Nazareth,Mary Magdalene,Martha and Mary,Elizabeth,Samaritan Woman,Crippled Woman,Menstruating Woman,Adulterous Woman; 
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