Bathsheba is listed in the lineage of Jesus, not by name, but as “her who had been the wife of Uriah.” We don’t know why. Maybe Matthew was making a statement about King David. I don’t know. What I do know is that women were treated like property back then. The biblical account of Bathsheba’s […]
When I think of Ruth, I think of loyalty and faithfulness. She gave up everything to accompany her mother-in-law home to the land of Judah. Ruth gave up her homeland, family, friends, neighbors, and religion to travel to a land where she would stand out as being “different;” a land and a people she knew
Tamar (Genesis 38) was complicated. Her life was complicated. She had two husbands, brothers, who were “wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord killed [them].” (Genesis 38:7) Her father-in-law, Judah, told her to return to her father’s house until his youngest son was old enough to marry her, (as was the custom).
