I have been reading my Bible during my breaks at work, and trying to focus on the women, to see how they handle situations, how they interact with other women, with men, and with God.
I figure since I am a Christian woman, I could use some good role models, but the trouble is, there is just about every type of woman imaginable. You have strong leaders like Deborah, and gentle followers like Ruth. You have Hanna pouring her heart out to God and being comforted, and Sara, who laughed in the face of God at the news she would become pregnant. And so on, and so on. So Christian ladies, if you would, who is your role model ?
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There is only one role model in the Bible
There is only one role model in the Bible and that is Christ. Everyone else is flawed. That's the point.
Katie Leone (Katie-Leone.com)
Writing is what you do when you put pen to paper, being an author is what you do when you bring words to life
All kinds of women in the bible
Lot's two daughters. (Read the story for yourself.)
Mary Magdalen (Who, in some versions of the story, was Jesus' wife and had his child.)
Salome. (Who danced for the head of John.)
Jezebel. (The OTHER woman.)
Delilah. (Who liked short-haired men.)
All kinds of women, indeed!
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
Doesn't It Seem
That some of the pairs of wimyn in the old testament must have had lesbian relationships? It might even have been normal and expected.
These wimyn were from before Jesus lived, couldn't be Christians and were (nominally?) Jewish or Israelite.
I've thought some on this topic. Unless there is a very uneven distribution of food, girls survive better than boys. In the new stone age/bronze age Israelite culture, the boys and young men seemed to have been in the more dangerous/higher death rate situations. EG; a shepherd had to deal with predators up to (African size, I think) lions. On top of this, it reads as if there were lots of combat with other nomadic and/or settled peoples including wars which probably had men away from their homes for years.
This all meant a shortage of non-crippled, like missing limbs, men for husbands. I'm not sure on this, but their religion seemed to exclude men with missing limbs. These might be forbidden to marry if their disability was great. To compensate for fewer men, the families were polygamous. It seemed that wimyn were (formally) held in slightly higher esteem then the big barnyard animals. Men being away for weeks or even years would leave the wimyn lonely and looking for love. Thinking on this, I compare it to wimyn in prison. 40% might not be committed lesbians or even self admitted bi's, but they still pair up and comfort each other. If their husband's 2nd cousin is the surviving male of any relation to the wives and he has the task of providing for them (a little?) and getting them pregnant he could mainly be with his own family and leave these wives alone nearly all the time. Probably if there wasn't a man around or some man was responsible (owned them?), but wasn't around much, authorities didn't care what the wimyn did as long as they provided babies and did whatever work they were supposed to do.
So, just a hypothesis.
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee