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    Three Women of Hope: Miriam, Hannah, Huldah
    Three Women of Hope: Miriam, Hannah, Huldah
    Three Women of Hope: Miriam, Hannah, Huldah
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    Three Women of Hope: Miriam, Hannah, Huldah

    By Christianne Meroz

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    The land of Israel is intimately linked to the adventures of the prophets, men like Elijah, Amos, Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the list goes on and on. How about prophets who were women? Does anyone remember that two gates of the Jerusalem Temple bore the name of Huldah, one of these women? Probably not, which is not all that astonishing given that history was written by men . . .
    Some women have, however, found places in history: Sarah and Hagar, Rebekah, Rachel and Leah, to name a few. Other women also deserve to emerge from silence: women like Miriam, Hannah, and Huldah. It is nonetheless true that these women have to be identified with reference to a man: the first is Moses' sister, the second is Samuel's mother, the third a colleague of King Josiah, Israel's reformer. This little book paints their portraits, with much sensitivity and tenderness, but never restraining disgust when the role of the women is found to have been erased unjustly.
    The abundant use made here of Jewish traditions of Bible reading will help readers discover the riches of a tradition uniquely suited to broadening their experience. Nor will they be left unaffected or indifferent by the deep spirituality revealed here.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateJan 7, 2014
    ISBN9781630872502
    Three Women of Hope: Miriam, Hannah, Huldah
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    Christianne Meroz

    Christianne Meroz is a sister of the Swiss Community of Grandchamp. A psychologist and theologian, she facilitates women's groups, chiefly in Holland. Among her writings there are two other books in this series, one of which, Five Women: Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Rachel, Leah, has already appeared in English.

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      Three Women of Hope - Christianne Meroz

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      Miriam the Nomad

      Miriam comes onto the stage in the first chapters of the book of Exodus (2:1–10) at the time when the Hebrews are slaves in Egypt dealing with the shock of the decree Pharaoh has issued demanding the death of all the newborn Hebrew boys in the realm.

      When the women, whose vocation after all is to safeguard life, were confronted with this plan of extermination, they immediately put a defensive strategy into place. Thanks to the Hebrew midwives, who courageously defied Pharaoh’s order, their sons were shielded from death (1:17–20).

      It is their creative disobedience that permits Miriam to enter salvation history through the act of saving her younger brother Moses from certain death.

      1. The Saving Act

      Miriam is one of the seven prophets recognized by the Talmud who are women. She is therefore a member of that group of women and men whose role it is to look beyond and through events in order to announce something new, for that is the work of a prophet. The premises of this new thing are found hidden within the events themselves. The prophet’s task is both to look into the future and to speak about it, since it is usually by means of the spoken word that prophets intervene in the course of history.

      Seeing beyond Events

      While prophets are noted for their visionary and interpretative gifts, they also stand out by their often nonconformist behavior. With a religious sensitivity ahead of their time, they are not afraid of critiquing cultural formalism. Defending the poor, making common cause with the rejected, they are themselves most often on the margins of society right alongside foreigners, women, widows, and orphans, alongside all those left behind. Prophets, both women and men, take on the role of intermediary between the divine and the human. They represent God to the world and the world to

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