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October 2018. In this week’s parashah, Noach, we hear from Noah’s unnamed wife. She reminds us that it is not easy being one of the women in the Torah. Although these women ensured the future of humanity and of our people Israel, too often they are unnamed, demonized, silenced, or forgotten.
Jul 1, 2021 · Manoah’s Wife: Unnamed but Not Anonymous | Christian Standard. Features. by Paulette Stamper | 1 July, 2021 | 1 comment. When you hear the biblical name Samson, what comes to mind? It’s likely you recall the stories of his long hair and supernatural strength.
- The Geographical Meaning of Kush
- The Identity of The Kushite Woman
- Why Do Miriam and Aaron object?
- Punished with White Skin-Disease For An Insult to A dark-skinned Woman
- Contemporary Relevance
The geographical term כּוּשׁ “Kush” in the Bible refers broadly to Africa and Africans and more narrowly to the land south of Egypt, as do the cognate terms in Egyptian (kush) and Assyrian (kusu). In the Table of Nations in Genesis 10, Kush is the eldest son of Ham (10:6) and the older brother of Mitzraim (Egypt), thus placing Kush in Africa in the...
Taking Numbers 12:1 at face value, Moses has a wife who comes from African Kush. Who is this mysterious wife?
If we accept the plain sense of the text and the statement that Moses married (as a second wife) an unnamed Kushite woman, why do Aaron and Miriam speak against her? Most scholars maintain that it is because she is foreign, since she is described with a foreign gentilic. That seems an obvious explanation, but if so, why is this objection never made...
As a consequence of speaking disparagingly about Moses’ wife, Miriam is punished: Note the emphasis on the whiteness of her now diseased skin. A contrast may be intended here with the Kushite wife’s dark skin, although it is not made explicit.If this is the case, Miriam’s critique has some connection to the woman's color, and her punishment reads a...
In reading a passage like this, we need to avoid importing our own “race-consciousness” into the biblical world, to avoid distorting the biblical narrative with concerns and prejudices that are not native to it.Nevertheless, one point with some contemporary relevance is worth highlighting. For much of American history, the Bible has been mined in s...
Robin Gallaher Branch. Biblical Figures, Sexuality & Gender. Share. Search the Bible. The Bible has a host of named, speaking characters—and a much larger cast of anonymous and nonspeaking ones. We tend to focus on and remember the former and may overlook the latter. Female characters are particularly interesting.
Noah's wife. Name: Naamah. Source: Midrash Genesis Rabbah 23:4. Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4:22; Gen. 7:7. Daughter of Lamech and Zillah and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen. iv. 22).
Apr 28, 2017 · Some Bible scholars have suggested that Cleopas’s fellow traveler was his wife, Mary. ( N. T. Wright , James Montgomery Boice, and Jim Cole-Rous, to name just three, believe this to be the most reasonable interpretation, and many others, such as Wayne Grudem, consider it a possibility.)
The unnamed wife of Pontius Pilate appears only once in the Gospel of Matthew (27:19), where she intercedes with Pilate on Jesus' behalf. It is uncertain whether Pilate was actually married, although it is likely.
