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Portrait of Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, lord of Port-Royal, or of Antoine Le Maître, his elder brother, by the workshop of Philippe de Champaigne. The Bible de Port-Royal ("Port-Royal Bible"), or Bible de Sacy ("Sacy Bible"), is a French translation of the Catholic Bible done by Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy. It was first published in ...
Priscilla illustration from the Women of the Bible, Harold Copping. Priscilla was a woman of Jewish heritage and one of the earliest known Christian converts who lived in Rome. Her name is a Roman diminutive for Prisca which was her formal name. She is often thought to have been the first example of a female preacher or teacher in early church ...
This name is not found in the Bible, and there is debate on if "the Kushite" refers to Zipporah herself or a second woman (Tharbis). Timnah (or Timna) – concubine of Eliphaz and mother of Amalek. Genesis [194] Tirzah – one of the daughters of Zelophehad. Numbers, Joshua [71] [109]
The zonah of the Hebrew Bible is a woman who is not under the authority of a man; she may be a paid prostitute, but not necessarily. In the Bible, for a woman or girl who was under the protection of a man to be called a "zonah" was a grave insult to her and her family.
The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and she has ...
Type II (excision): complete or partial removal of the inner labia, with or without removal of the clitoral glans and outer labia; Type III (infibulation): removal of the inner and outer labia and the fusion of the wound, leaving a matchstick-sized hole for the passing of urine and menstrual blood;
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (EJG.30) and Sébastien de Brossard composed a cantata Judith. Alessandro Scarlatti wrote an oratorio in 1693, La Giuditta , as did the Portuguese composer Francisco António de Almeida in 1726; Juditha triumphans was written in 1716 by Antonio Vivaldi ; Mozart composed in 1771 La Betulia Liberata (KV 118), to a ...
Eve [c] is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story [1] of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman to be created by God. Eve is known also as Adam's wife. According to the second chapter of Genesis, Eve was created by God by taking her from the rib [2] of Adam, to be Adam's companion.