Digital Commons @ SPU

Title

Women Workers in the Old Testament

Authors

Theology of Work Project
Alice Matthews

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-4-2017

Keywords

Women and Work, Teamwork, Stewardship, Caregiving

Abstract

• God Created Woman as an Ezer Kind of Helper (Genesis 2:18)
• Genesis 3 and the Birth of Sin
• Shiphrah and Puah: Two Ezer Midwives Defy the King (Exodus 1:8-22)
• Rahab: Diverse Situations Require Ezer Work (Joshua 2)
• Deborah: An Ezer Woman Equipped to Lead (Judges 4-5)
• Ruth: The Ezer Daughter-in-Law
• Abigail: An Ezer Ranch Wife Saves Her Household From Disaster (1 Samuel 25)
• Huldah: A Prophet and Teacher (2 Kings 22)
• Esther: A Harem Girl Grows Into a Powerful Queen (Esther 4)
• Lady Wisdom and the "Beginning of Wisdom" (Proverbs 1:20-32; 9:10)
• Lady Wisdom in Street Clothes (Proverbs 31)

Comments

Contributed to Digital Commons @ SPU with permission from the Theology of Work Project.

Recommended Citation

Theology of Work Project and Matthews, Alice, "Women Workers in the Old Testament" (2017). Theology of Work Project. 55.
https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/tow_project/55

Additional Rights Information

Copyright held by the Theology of Work Project, Inc. Unless otherwise noted, the Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License