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Priya Rajendran

The women of the Bible, named and unnamed, and what their stories reveal about faith and courage.

Public writing

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  • Hannah the Woman Who Poured Out Her Soul

    A woman whose name means favor sits in a temple and is mistaken for a drunk by the priest who should have known better. Hannah, whose name promised grace, lived for years as the woman everyone assumed

    prayer, grief, favor

  • The Midwives Who Would Not Obey the King

    Sold under a new king, a whole people goes nameless. Then two names show up. Shiphrah and Puah are the only two people named at the start of Exodus, and they are not royalty. They are the women the ki

    midwives, exodus, courage

  • The Woman Who Interrupted a Miracle (Mark 5)

    Jairus gets the appointment; she gets the interruption. Mark 5 braids two desperate people together: a synagogue ruler with a dying twelve-year-old daughter, and a woman who has bled for twelve years,

    womenofthebible, mark, healing, faith, +1

  • Five Sisters Who Moved a Law: The Daughters of Zelophehad

    Numbers 27 records something rare in the ancient world: a law changed because five sisters asked. Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. Numbers 27:1 English - ESV Scripture names all five of t

    womenofthebible, women, numbers, justice, +1

  • Judge, Prophet, Mother: Deborah and the Song That Names Her Twice

    Judges 4 introduces Deborah with a stack of titles most women in the book never receive: prophet, wife of Lappidoth, and one "judging Israel at that time" (Judges 4:4 English - ESV). She sits unde

    women, judges, prophets, study

  • The Woman Who Made the Family Tree

    Matthew opens his gospel with a genealogy, and hidden in the list of fathers are four women. One of them ran a brothel in Jericho. Matthew 1:3 English - ESV Matthew 1:5-6 English - ESV [[Matth

    women, faith, rahab, genealogy, +1