In Hebrew scripture men always get the exiting roles: leader, prophet, war hero. Convinced that women, too, need powerful stories that can inform them about who they are in relation to God, Nancy Werking Poling has imagined biblical men as women. A female Samson tells of the elders trying to take away her power; Nochat (Noah), who is trying to raise God-honoring children in violent times, rebukes God for destroying creation; Mosiah leads abused sisters to freedom; a female Jacob struggles with her capacity for deceit and destruction. Readers are sure to find inspiration in a creative approach to scripture that incorporates women's wisdom, suffering, and courage.
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Nancy Werking Poling. Had Eve Come First and Jonah Been a Woman
Had Eve Come First. and Jonah Been a Woman
Preface
Acknowledgments
Lonely Woman
Survival
Confused
Not All Who Wander are Lost
The Lamb that Was Slain
Insubordination
Jabbok Night
When Sisters Dream*
Better to Have Made the Journey
The Wall
And You Will Eat of the Honey
The Road to Ramah
Let None of Us Be Cowards
As She Loved Her Own Soul
The Mentor
More than a Woman Can Bear
A Sisterhood of Survivors
The Nice Woman
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Nancy Werking Poling
RESOURCE Publications - Eugene, Oregon
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“God told our grandmother to build it.”
At this point the neighbors would burst out laughing and ask each other, “How likely is it that God only speaks to this crazy woman?”
