a list of women in the Biblical narrative who don't seem to fit traditional gender norms. Do they behave appropriately? I'm thinking about poetry, gender, and Europe these days. This would be a gender post. Yes. Hmm. Specifically, I'm wondering about a friend who says that gender roles aren't laid forth in the Bible's teaching about family, per se. This friend says they're laid out in the created order, not limited to the family sphere but influencing in a normative way the spheres of family, church, and state. This makes me uncomfortable, so I'm thinking.
Eve, mother of mankind
Sarah, mother of Isaac
Rachel and Leah, sisters who marry Jacob
Tamar, daughter-in-law of Judah
Rahab, survivor of Jericho
Deborah, judge of Israel
Naomi, mother-in-law of Ruth
Ruth, wife of Boaz
Abigail, wife of Nabal, then of David
Esther, queen of Persia
Elizabeth, mother of John
Mary, mother of Jesus
the woman of Luke 7
Mary and Martha
Priscilla