Out of The Shadows Part I: what the Hebrew Bible says about women

The cultures the Hebrew Bible describes were male-dominated — but the authors are often critiquing the very culture they describe. Walk through Sarah, Rahab, Deborah and Jael, Manoah's wife, Huldah, and the women Matthew refused to leave out of his genealogy, and an undercurrent of dignity comes into view. Even Judges 19 — read carefully — is the writer naming brokenness, not endorsing it. Article 3 in the series on what the Bible actually says about men and women.