Biblical Wonder Woman: HAGAR is widely known throughout Christendom as the one who gave birth to Abram’s first biological son, Ishmael. We quickly remember that when she knew she had conceived, she looked down on Sarai – Abram’s wife, her mistress. Hagar’s conception was blatant … Continue reading
Biblical Wonder Woman: LYDIA is introduced to us through the missionary exploits of Paul. On his second missionary journey, he went to Philippi for several days and “On the Sabbath, he went a little way outside the city to a riverbank…” (Acts 16:13) He went … Continue reading
Biblical Wonder Woman: HANNAH is introduced to us as one of the two wives of Elkanah. It’s interesting that from the very beginning, their status as a wife and their status as a mother are immediately established. The first wife, Hannah, was loved, but had no … Continue reading
Biblical Wonder Woman: ELIZABETH is introduced to us as the wife of a certain priest and is further identified as one of the ‘daughters of Aaron’. Although characterized as righteous before God and walking in all of the commandments and ordinances of God, scripture records … Continue reading
Biblical Wonder Woman: JAEL is introduced to us in scripture as “the wife of Heber the Kenite”. The only other detail noted about her is that she was married to a man whose family was on friendly terms with Jabin, the Canaanite king. The Canaanites had … Continue reading
