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Author : Letty M. Russell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0664235468
Author : Phyllis Trible,Letty M. Russell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664229824
In different ways, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all trace their beginnings to Abraham. His wives, Hagar and Sarah, though also pivotal in the story, have received far less attention. In this book, however, noted Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars focus on Hagar, Sarah, and their children, from Ishmael and Isaac to their many descendents through the centuries. Moving from ancient and medieval sources to contemporary appropriations of the Sarah and Hagar story, the authors begin with an overview of the three religions--from their scriptural beginnings to their contemporary questions. They then explore how the story was developed after its canonization, in rabbinic interpretations, in the stories of Islam, and in the teachings of the early church fathers. They also present contemporary womanist and feminist perspectives. Timely, relevant, and provocative, this book provides an entree into interreligious discussion and understanding.
Author : Charlotte Gordon
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316040662
The saga of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar is the tale of origin for all three monotheistic faiths. Abraham must choose between two wives who have borne him two sons. One wife and son will share in his wealth and status, while the other two are exiled into the desert. Long a cornerstone of Western anxiety, the story chronicles a very famous and troubled family, and sheds light on the ongoing conflict between the Judeo-Christian and Islamic worlds. How did this ancient story become one of the least understood and most frequently misinterpreted of our cultural myths? Gordon explores this legendary love triangle to give us a startling perspective on three biblical characters who -- with their jealousies, passions, and doubts -- actually behave like human beings. The Woman Who Named God is a compelling, smart, and provocative take on one of the Bible's most intriguing and troubling love stories.
Author : Irene Nowell
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814646274
It is not possible to tell the story of Abraham’s descendants without taking note of how God’s plan unfolded in the lives of Sarah and Hagar. The best laid plans and the unexpected converge as these two women respond to God’s promises.
Author : Marcia J. Bunge,Terence E. Fretheim,Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802848352
In this volume nineteen biblical scholars collaborate to provide an informed and focused treatment of biblical perspectives on children and childhood. Looking at the Bible through the "lens" of the child exposes new aspects of biblical texts and themes. Some of the authors focus on selected biblical texts -- Genesis, Proverbs, Mark, and more -- while others examine such biblical themes as training and disciplining, children and the image of God, the metaphor of Israel as a child, and so on. In discussing a vast array of themes and questions, the chapters also invite readers to reconsider the roles that children can or should play in religious communities today. Contributors: Reidar Aasgaard David L. Bartlett William P. Brown Walter Brueggemann Marcia J. Bunge John T. Carroll Terence E. Fretheim Beverly Roberts Gaventa Joel B. Green Judith M. Gundry Jacqueline E. Lapsley Margaret Y. MacDonald Claire R. Mathews McGinnis Esther M. Menn Patrick D. Miller Brent A. Strawn Marianne Meye Thompson W. Sibley Towner Keith J. White
Author : Don Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1456416030
'The Greatest Love Triangle Story Ever Told: Abraham, Sarah and Hagar' is a historical novel based on the early Genesis story of Abraham, who through his wife Sarah would become father of the Jews and by extension Christians, and through Sarah's Nubian slave girl Hagar, father of Muslims. The dysfunction of their family continues to impact our daily headlines on a daily basis. The author, an award-winning journalist and author of three non-fiction books and six novels published in serialized form, set out to discover the Abraham who is neither Jew nor Christian nor Muslim, for historically and personally he could be none of those. Mr. Chapman tells this ancient story in a contemporary and often humorous way. Combining elements of historical research, Middle Eastern travelogue, romance novel (soft porn, some might say) and theological commentary, the book follows Abraham's quest to find and worship the one god of creation at a time and a place where 97 major gods were worshiped. Abraham is introduced in the opening chapters at age 8, apprenticing in his famous father Terach's stone idol business, learning to carve each of those 97 major gods, and his first flirtations with the idea of one god, with a help pf a pretty weird angel. Ensuing chapters show Abraham as a young adult, becoming one of the leading traders throughout the region, and growing in wealth.With the empire of Queen Shebad of Ur threatened by an Aryan invasion from the north and unrest in Ur's colonies in modern day Iraq, and having defeated the first wave of Aryans (though befriending an Aryan bard named Stan who is also in communication with the one god and that oddball angel), Abraham leaves the trail, marries his half-sister Sarah and settles into the good life of gentleman winemaker. Alas, despite his god's promise to make his children as numerous as the grains of sand, Sarah cannot conceive -- an embarrassment at a time (so soon after the world was nearly destroyed by flood and fire and brimstone) when fertility was valued above all else. With the empire on the verge of collapse, following this god's command Abraham leaves the fabulous city of Ur in southern Iraq and travels north to Canaan, which this god says he will give to Abraham's people in perpetuity. But Sheik Abraham and his hundreds of people and animals are not welcomed by its current inhabitants, and when drought begins to devastate the region, they head to Egypt. Fearing for his life, at the border Abraham tells Egyptian soldiers of the Babe Brigade -- whose job is to find the finest women for the horndog pharaohs -- and one of the paraohs marries Sarah, setting off a terrible plague. The pharaohs give Sarah a wedding gift of a slave, the recently captured Nubian princess Hagar. When they are all cast out of Egypt, they return to Canaan, settle among the Mammorites, Abraham again becoming a famous winemaker with fertile fields of crops an animals, Sarah and Hagar developing a close and intimate friendship. But still Sarah has not given Abraham children, so she conceives a plan to use Hagar as a surrogate mother. Once the former Nubian princess has conceived, however, and feeling the true affection of Abraham, she refuses to give the child up, and great conflict comes to Abraham's tent. Eventually Sarah gives Abraham a son, but the enmity between Hagar and Sarah will divide his tent, and continue to impact the world 4,000 years later.On his death bed, Abraham spells out his simple but heartfelt belief in the one god of creation who needs to other prophet.
Author : Georgia Tanner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1949572021
Who is this God we believe in, and does He really care about us? Genesis is more than a description of creation, it is God_s invitation to get to know Him and the people He calls His own.Story by story, God introduces His family. Walk under the starry sky of a defeated Abraham. Hide behind locked doors with Lot and his terrified daughters. Listen in on Rebekah_s whispered kitchen instructions to her favorite son, Jacob, as they cook up a stew of trouble. Find out there_s more to Joseph than a spoiled little brother_s designer coat. More often than not, you_ll discover it_s the _good guys_ going down the wrong path with blood on their sandals.These aren_t the stories you thought you knew. This isn_t the God you thought you knew. He is not quietly floating in the heavens looking on. He_s standing in the middle of His rebellious children, reaching out with open arms and a bar of soap to wash them clean.God has been dealing with the mess of flawed and broken people from the very beginning. Through these intimate small stories from Genesis, we find the heart of a very Big God.
Author : Mohja Kahf
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781682260005
“Mohja Kahf ’s Hagar Poems is brilliantly original in its conception, thrillingly artful in its execution. Its range is immense, its spiritual depth is profound, it negotiates its shifts between archaic and the contemporary with utmost skill. There’s lyricism, there’s satire, there’s comedy, there’s theology of a high order in this book.” —Alicia Ostriker, author of For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book “Hagar/ Hajar the immigrant/exile/outcast/refugee mother of a people is given multiple voices and significance in Mohja Kahf’s new book of dramatic monologues, which also reinvents Pharaoh’s daughter, Zuleika, Aïsha, and Mary in poems that are at once lively and learned, agnostic and devout. The sequence on an American mosque, and the poet’s ambivalent love for what it represents, is unique in American poetry.” —Marilyn Hacker, author of A Stranger’s Mirror “‘Where have all the goddesses gone,’ writes Mohja Kahf, ‘I tracked down Isis / incognito on Cyprus. /She told me Ishtar / lived under the radar / in southern Iraq. . . .’ In Hagar Poems, Mohja Kahf’s hallmark qualities—irreverence, imagination, wit, poignancy—are all exuberantly in evidence. A wonderful read.” —Leila Ahmed, author of A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America “This brilliant collection captures all the ‘patient threading of relationship’ between Hagar and Sarah as between women, and then between women and men, between human and God. . . . At every turn of the page [Kahf] refuses complacency and circumstance but opts instead for exposing the tenuousness of threads that tie and bind and then come loose before our eyes.” —From the foreword by Amina Wadud The central matter of this daring new collection is the story of Hagar, Abraham, and Sarah—the ancestral feuding family of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These poems delve into the Hajar story in Islam. They explore other figures from the Near Eastern heritage, such as Mary and Moses, and touch on figures from early Islam, such as Fatima and Aisha. Throughout, there is artful reconfiguring. Readers will find sequels and prequels to the traditional narratives, along with modernized figures claimed for contemporary conflicts. Hagar Poems is a compelling shakeup of not only Hagar’s story but also of current roles of all kinds of women in all kinds of relationships.
Author : Diana L. Hayes
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9781616438692
Author : Dolores S. Williams
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608333110
This landmark work first published 20 years ago helped establish the field of African-American womanist theology. It is widely regarded as a classic text in the field. Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagar mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God Williams finds a proptype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile, surrogate mother, Hagar's story provides an image of survival and defiance appropriate to black women today. Exploring the themes implicit in Hagar's story poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounter with God Williams traces parallels in the history of African-American women from slavery to the present day. A new womanist theology emerges from this shared experience, from the interplay of oppressions on account of race, sex and class. Sisters in the Wilderness offers a telling critique of theologies that promote "liberation" but ignore women of color. This is a book that defined a new theological project and charted a path that others continue to explore.
Author : Roberta Kells Dorr
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802484956
A splendid exploration of faith against great odds and love that endures years of disappointment. Abraham and Sarah is a masterful historical drama from the moment that Abraham strides into the pagan temple to rescue Sarah. The couple sets out in search of the blessings God had promised: abundant fertile land and decedents more plentiful than the stars. But years of wandering bring the couple to Egypt, where once again Abraham convinces Sarah that as sister and brother surely they will pass safely through the territory. But Pharaoh takes Sarah into his harem, where she befriends Pharaoh’s daughter, Hagar. Together the three are ordered to leave. Years of barrenness have embittered Sarah, and she hatches a plan: Hagar must become the vessel for the child God has promised. Ishmael is born to Hagar, and jealousy is born in Sarah’s heart. But God had a plan and He was right all along. This miracle unfolds with historical authenticity, leaving the reader with a better understanding of the ancient world and the life-changing faith of Abraham and Sarah.
Author : Anthony R. Ceresko
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608332014
Applying Norman Gottwald's thesis on Israel's origins, Cereski argues that Israel was formed through a process of social revolution, inspired by the memory of runaway slaves and their worship of a God whose cult mandated radical social equality and justice.
Author : Ryan Heinsch
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161617898
Author : Gerald Friedlander
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1015466680
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Author : Anika Stafford
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1558964851
Best friends Aisha and Heather and their families celebrate various Pagan holidays together. Includes discussion guides and activities.