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Consider the women : a provocative guide to three matriarchs of the Bible / Debbie Blue.

by Blue, Debbie, author.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019.

Hagar (Biblical figure)

Esther, Queen of Persia.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Matriarchs (Bible)

Women in the Bible.

Women and religion.

Abrahamic religions.

9780802874290 paperback alkaline paper

0802874290 paperback alkaline paper

vi, 225 pages ; 20 cm

Introduction: We live and die by stories -- Part one: Abrahamic faith. Go from your father's house : moving to new and unknown places -- Rambunctious monotheism : the feminine face of God -- Part two: Hagar. The biblical story : a matriarch on par with a patriarch -- The mother of Islam : looking for Hagar in the Qur'an, a tattoo parlor, and an art gallery -- Full faith and effort : where I meet a feminist Muslim scholar -- Iftar : visiting a mosque with my daughter -- Part three: Esther. The biblical story : the Jewish heroine who reclaims Eros -- Purim : the farce awakens -- Shoah : scapegoating and status-seeking -- Part four: Mary. The biblical story : the subversive Mother of God -- The shape-shifting queen : goddesses, Guadalupe, and grandmas.

Blue looks closely at Hagar (mother of Islam), Esther (Jewish heroine), and Mary (Christian matriarch), and finds in them unexpected and inviting new ways of navigating faith and life. Readers will be led to envision more expansive and hopeful possibilities for faith, human connection, and love in our divided, violent world. -- adapted from back cover

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