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	RCRC - What the Bible Says About Sex
		In fact, I now believe that a major function of Bible stories is to teach sexuality education: many of the stories and many of the laws contain information to help people understand the important role that sexuality plays in their lives.
		However, the matriarchs of the Hebrew Bible are all initially infertile: "God chose three infertile women and one woman [Leah] who was not desirable to her husband to bear children who would inherit the covenant."1 God's direct intervention helps these women to conceive.
		Bible stories and passages can help people identify and live according to their own values and to discriminate between sexual decisions that are life-enhancing or destructive.
	www.rcrc.org /issues/good_news.cfm (3928 words)

	eLuna.com
		The Bible is spare in its use of dialogue when it comes to the biblical matriarchs — Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah.
		The Passions of the Matriarchs is a riveting and readable book that tells the story behind the passions that ruled the lives of these laudable women.
		Besides studying and teaching Bible, which has been her passion, she and husband Alan Tuchman, are the parents of three children.
	www.eluna.com /Store/Book_PassionsOfTheMatriarchs.asp (407 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		By introducing each of its galleries with quotes from the Bible that set the context for the place and key materials or images, the museum encompasses peoples that are literally referenced and also those merely implied through a midrashic perspective that is more inclusive than a narrower view of "Bible Lands" might imply.
		As visitors are irresistibly drawn through the galleries that follow, they are led through the narratives that move from the period of the Hebrew patriarchs and matriarchs through the experiences of their Israelite descendants in and out of Egypt.
		The sixteenth gallery is devoted to the Persians in their Achaemenid efflorescence and carries the Hebrew Bible toward its chronological conclusion with the return from the First Exile as explained (and quoted in the gallery at length) in the last chapter of 2 Chronicles.
	www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=416 (1809 words)

	The Bible Story: A Short Summary
		The Bible is the story of God and God's creation-the story of how God has worked and is working with a humanity prone to rebellion to restore that humanity to renewed relationship with God.
		At the end of this book and this saga of the patriarchs and matriarchs, the promise was still alive because of their tenacious faith, but the only land they possessed in Canaan was a burial plot and the family was in Egypt...
		The Bible reports all the forms of sin and wickedness with their deathly consequences without restraint, but it also affirms that they already have been conquered and will finally be completely destroyed or transformed.
	www.ambs.edu /ljohns/biblestory.htm (9204 words)

	Matriarchy Summary
		Patriarchy may be defined as the "rule of the father" that extends beyond the confines of the family to include the governance of men and the dominance of male values in society as a whole.
		Contemporary anthropologists agree that there is no known matriarchal society in which women were or are accorded political power or hierarchical dominance over men by virtue of being female.
		The feminist archaeologist Marija Gimbutas is the best known of those who have presented (hotly contested) archaeological evidence that women enjoyed socioreligious preeminence in peaceable prehistoric Goddess-worshiping cultures prior to their destruction between the fifth and third centuries BCE by the military and agricultural technologies and patriarchal religious systems of invading warrior horsemen.
	www.bookrags.com /Matriarchy (3644 words)

	Old Testament, New Hatreds: The Hebrew Bible and Antisemitism in Nazi Germany
		One key use of the Bible was in defining Jews, giving names and content to what turned out to be a rather abstract category.
		Drawn from the Old Testament stories of matriarchs and patriarchs, they were familiar to German gentiles with even the most rudimentary religious education.
		The Bible was a vital part of popular culture in some other communities as well, for example, among the Calvinists of the Netherlands and the Huguenots of France.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/bergen_033001.htm (2741 words)

	Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive Browse
		It is worthwhile to look at the matriarchs only in their role as mothers; not only because motherhood so often defines “woman’s place” but also because of the ordinariness of this role—mothers as such are not major characters.
		Genesis 12–50 are stories about a promise, threefold promise to Abraham (i) of numerous descendants, (ii) of the land of Canaan and (iii) of the role as mediator of God’s blessing to all humanity— a promise passed from Abraham to his son, to his son, and so on down the male line.
		Bearing sons is of utmost importance, and the matriarchs’ major accomplishments are for the sake of their sons.
	members.bib-arch.org /nph-proxy.pl/000000A/http/www.basarchive.org/bswbBrowse.asp=3fPubID=3dBSBR&Volume=3d2&Issue=3d1&ArticleID=3d13 (3390 words)

	Shawna R. B. Atteberry » Bible
		Origen, an Early Church Father (he translated the Bible into Latin), responded by saying that there was more than one woman who witnessed the risen Christ, and that none of them were hysterical in the Gospels.
		This was something the extended family provided in the Bible: parents weren’t all on their own raising a family.
		There are several women leaders in the Bible: Deborah was a judge, prophet, and military leader (Judges 4–5); Miriam, the sister of Moses was a prophet (Exodus 15:20); and in the New Testament Priscilla and Aquila were co-pastors as well as made tents for a living together, and Junia was an apostle (Romans 16:7).
	www.shawnaatteberry.com /category/bible (12911 words)

	God Makes Promises to Women
		She is the only woman in the Bible whose great age is reported at the time she gives birth (Teubal, 1984) and the only woman whose "age is noted at her death" (Frankel, 1996).
		Throughout their history, the Israelites have had the example of Sarah the matriarch, the princess, the Barren One who became barren no longer, to offer hope that those who are unchosen are the fertile ground in which God can work to bring about chosenness and life itself.
		Women in the Hebrew Bible almost never receive such blessings, making this one appear remarkable in itself, but more remarkable is the fact that NO other biblical woman receives a blessing from her mother (Frankel, 1996).
	www.trinitysem.edu /journal/cunningpap.html (3039 words)

	Foreword: Bible Dreams
		Seymour Rossel is on to something of great importance here, both for the field of biblical scholarship and, I believe, for the spiritual life of anyone, Christian or Jew, who believes the Bible to be a sacred text capable of speaking to us from generation to generation.
		Understand them precisely as they were intended to be understood -- as dreams, visions of who we are and who we might become if we but follow the dreampath beckoning not just to "them" but also, and equally, to us.
		The Bible is always best read as "practical theology," God's way of telling us how to live the meaning of our lives, without quite telling us how.
	www.rossel.net /Bible_Dreams_foreword.htm (524 words)

	Who knows Four? The Imahot in rabbinic Judaism - the Matriarchs Judaism - Find Articles
		Both the Jewish Encyclopedia (1905) and the Encyclopedia Judaica (1972) have entries for "Patriarchs" but no corresponding entry for "Matriarchs." The Matriarchs as a concept is treated only in passing in both articles, under the heading of the Patriarchs.
		It would seem that at least to some rabbinic sages, the Matriarchs were deemed worthy of mention as founders of Judaism, along with their male counterparts.
		These include the merit of the Matriarchs, the Matriarchs as prophets, the barren Matriarchs, the use of the Matriarchs as metaphors, and the six Matriarchs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_n1_v44/ai_17155572 (603 words)

	Bible Dreams - the Spiritual Quest
		If you are fascinated by the dreams and visions in the Bible, Bible Dreams The Spiritual Quest will enable you to understand them in new and unexpected ways, while helping you to interpret your own significant dreams.
		Rabbi Rossel served as Coordinator of the School of Education of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute in New York and was Director of the Department of Education of the UAHC.
		Here, the Bible itself speaks to each of us to address our deeper concerns, anxieties, and hopes--the deeper fears and visions that we admit to ourselves only in our dreams, when we sleep and lay ourselves open to the quiet whisperings of the Spirit of God who dwells in our hearts.
	www.hebrewworld.com /BibleDreams.html (563 words)

	Jewish Standard Matriarchs and other Bible belles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		She agreed with Lerner that the matriarchs present no one specific model of parenting, but emphasized that "they were all very strong, in all aspects of their lives."
		Rabbi Helaine Ettinger, religious leader of the Jewish Congregation of Kinnelon, believes that the "matriarchs were as flawed as the patriarchs."
		Noting that the matriarchs contended with the struggle to conceive children, Lewittes emphasized that we need to acknowledge the pain of, and express solidarity with, those who wish to become mothers but can’t.
	www.jstandard.com /articles/1052/1/Matriarchs-and-other-Bible-belles (750 words)

	3. Historicity
		Of course determining the time line of the Hebrew Bible is not quite so simple, and contemporary science tells us that the universe is at least fifteen billion years old.
		Within the Hebrew Bible the exodus out of Egypt seems to be the pivot point of history, and other events are dated in reference to it.
		Often such readers are predisposed to the Bible's accuracy out of their understanding of what it must be as the Word of God.
	www.hope.edu /academic/religion/bandstra/RTOT/PART1/PT1_3.HTM (1250 words)

	j. - Senators' Bible teacher preaches personal ethics in public life
		In her Bible study group on Capitol Hill, Naomi Harris Rosenblatt points to the stories of the patriarchs and matriarchs to explain why Princess Diana's death had a more sensational effect than that of Mother Teresa.
		Her weekly Bible classes for senators had their genesis in a long-term friendship between her husband and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who were together at Yale Law School.
		I was commenting that there were so many Bible classes on the Hill, but I was upset that nobody was teaching the Hebrew Bible and interpreting it.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7007/format/html/displaystory.html (831 words)

	Patriarchs (Bible) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Collectively, they are referred to as the three patriarchs (sh'loshet ha-avot) of Judaism, and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal period.
		Their primary wives – Sarah (wife of Abraham), Rebeccah (wife of Isaac), and Leah and Rachel (the wives of Jacob) – are known as the Matriarchs.
		In the New Testament, King David is referred to as a patriarch, as are Jacob's twelve sons (the ancestors of the Twelve tribes of Israel).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patriarchs_(Bible) (365 words)

	What the Bible Says a Christian Must Believe (in a nutshell)
		Not one iota of the Bible is false.- must believe and obey all of it.
		The Bible does not mention the return of Jesus was to happen many years later.
		These mass murders by God of the Bible are often in the hundreds, thousands, and hundreds of thousands -- God of the Bible is very vicious and does not obey his own commandment "Thou shalt not kill".
	afgen.com /biblesay.html (1164 words)

	Ohr Somayach :: Pesach :: Four More Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		Under the yoke of Egyptian slavery, only an elite core of Jews exercised this option, listening to "the ethic of your father." For the rank and file, the vast number of Jews, there remained only some vestiges of Jewish identity.
		This, "the matriarchal four," this "law of our Mothers" is what sustains us in exile.
		Yet, the mechanism by which the pact functions is the matriarchal mode.
	ohr.edu /yhiy/article.php/828 (733 words)

	New Work for the year 2000 by Annette Turow
		"Matriarchs followed the Circa 1900 series which originally emanated from a string of amber beads owned by my great grandmother, Hannah.
		Ideas and sensations about the matriarchal figures in the Bible and what they wore began to develop as a natural extension of the fabrics I had imagined for Hannah.
		I was preoccupied with the layers, hidden spaces, coverings, shadows and textures of the cloth used to create their robes.
	www.annetteturow.com /new/matriarchs.html (239 words)

	NPR : Bart Ehrman's 'Misquoting Jesus'
		Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why is the result of years of reading the texts in their original languages.
		Ehrman says the modern Bible was shaped by mistakes and intentional alterations that were made by early scribes who copied the texts.
		These traditions involved both stories about God's interaction with the ancestors of the people of Israel -- the patriarchs and matriarchs of the faith, as it were: Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rachel, Jacob, Rebecca, Joseph, Moses, David, and so on -- and detailed instructions concerning how this people was to worship and live.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5052156 (1091 words)

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		In Women in the Bible you should become familiar with the following people, terms, and concepts and be prepared to demonstrate your mastery of them on tests.
		Note that items may be added to or deleted from this list depending on what we actually cover in the course.
		Identify and discuss the significance of selected quotations from the matriarchs.
	www.richmond.edu /~rreilly/women_bible/learning_objectives_1 (271 words)

	St. Anselm Institute \| Homepage
		The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Matriarchs of Israel
		Anderson's research interests concern the role of ritual and sacrifice in biblical religion, the reception of the Bible in early Judaism and in Christianity, and the theological task of relating modern approaches to the study of biblical texts and to the tradition of the church.
		He has had particular interest in the way apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts, as well as early Christian and Jewish art, can be used as sources for early biblical commentary.
	www.stanselminstitute.org (168 words)

	Bibles Bible Studies Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
		I used this book in putting together a bible study and really loved its bridging context and modern day application, the author is to be commended for his insight and ability to bring this ancient text into our modern world.
		Most scholars agree, nevertheless, that the books officially contained in the Bible are the most accurate (though that is not stating they are completely accurate...only that they are closer to the events, and are more likely to contain a better historical perspective than books not included).
		Other key Bible commentaires on John are the classic by Godet, Beasley-Murray in the Word Bible Commentary and Ridderbos' theological commentary on the gospel of John.
	www.e-book-store.com /Bibles_Bible_Studies/Bibles_Bible_Studies_57.html (6276 words)

	The Cave of Machpelah - Tomb of the Patriarchs
		Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah are all later buried in the same Cave of Machpelah.
		These are considered the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish people.
		The only one who is missing is Rachel, who was buried near Bethlehem where she died in childbirth.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/machpelah.html (373 words)

	Crash Course in Jewish History Part 2: The Bible as History
		In summary, the Bible is not a book of history, yet it contains history and culture, which is more or less borne out by archeology.
		On the microcosmic level, within the stories of Genesis in the Bible, we're going to see that what happens to the ancients will be repeated by their children.
		On a macrocosmic level, the personalities and interactions of the early forefathers -- the patriarchs and matriarchs -- are going to be a model for all of Jewish history, and all of human history.
	www.aish.com /literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_2_The_Bible_as_History.asp (1529 words)

	Dummies::Taking a Look at Jewish Religious Beliefs
		Historically and in the present, the heart of the faith is carried and communicated through the way, the path, and the teachings of Torah.
		On one level, the five books narrate a story from the creation of the world to the death of Moses, around 1200 B.C.E. On a deeper level, the Torah is the central text that guides the Way called Judaism (the word Torah derives from the verb "to guide" or "to teach").
		Another name for the Hebrew Bible is the Tanach, which is actually an acronym made up of the first letters of the names of each of the three sections: "T" is for Torah, "N" is for Nevi'im ("Prophets"), and "Ch" is for Ketuvim ("Writings").
	www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-985.html (1116 words)

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