Far More Precious Than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women

by Katheryn Pfisterer Darr

Book Overview

Using interpretation from modern critical scholars, rabbis, and feminist scholars, Katheryn Darr offers a fascinating book that provides new ways of understanding the stories of four biblical women. The author studies Ruth, a foreigner from Moab who became the ancestor of Israel's King David; Sarah, who lost hope of bearing a child yet she became the mother of Isaac and the entire Hebrew nation; Hagar, who was mistreated by Sarah, her boss, yet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664251072
• ISBN13: 9780664251079
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"