Women of Bible Lands: A Pilgrimage to Compassion and Wisdom

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Liturgical Press, 2004 - 352 páginas

Women of Bible Lands is an anthology of biblical and early stories about Jewish, Christian, and Muslim women from the nineteenth century B.C.E. to the ninth century C.E. Ancient words and journeys strengthen modern readers for a challenging pilgrimage from the head to the heart as they travel in spirit through the Holy Land to Greece, Turkey, and North Africa. Kirk's book, which is the first guide book to biblical sites associated with women, not only fills a void, but does so in an inspirational and imaginative way.

Part One: Reclaiming Women's Stories and Journeys discusses the types of women that have been remembered in the Christian tradition and examines the scarcity of women's writings and the possibilities of women's oral tradition within the Bible and other early sources. Chapters in Part One are: Shards and Stories," *'As a Mother Hen Gathers Her Brood Under Her Wings, '- *The Pilgrimage to the Womb of Compassion, - *Seeking the True Cross, Seeking the True Helena, - *Ascetic Life, an Inner Journey; Paula and Egeria, Their Outer and Inner Journeys, - and *Guides for Reading. -

Part Two: Stories, Sites, and Maps includes introductions to the sites, maps, information about or by women or female images of God, and selections from the Bible or an early Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, or Arabic text. Chapters in Part Two are: *The Old City of Jerusalem, - *Other Sites in Jerusalem, - *Sites in Israel and Palestine, - *Sinai, Egypt, and Tunisia, - *Iran, Iraq, Jordan, - *Lebanon and Syria, - *Greece and the Mediterranean Islands, - and *Turkey.

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Shards and Stories
3
As a Hen Gathers Her Brood
11
Bible Lands Today
24
The Pilgrimage to the Center of Compassion
25
Seeking the True Cross Seeking the True Helena
43
Egerias and Paulas Journeys
50
Ascetic Life an Inner Journey
51
Hebron
57
Hazor
173
Heptapegon or Tabgha
175
Latrun
181
Mizpah Tel enNasbeh
187
Nain
193
Ramallah Womens Center
199
Solomons Pools
205
Egypt and Sinai
212

Old names of places are in regular type and modern names that are sub
67
Cana
69
The Old City of Jerusalem 7678
76
The Old City of Jerusalem
79
The Stone of Unction
86
The Jewish Quarter
92
Excavations at the Western Wall Plaza
98
Other Parts of Jerusalem
102
Other Parts of Jerusalem
104
City of David
111
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension
119
Northern Section
127
Hebrew Union College and Museum
135
Israel and Palestine
142
Israel and Palestine
143
Bethlehem
149
Milk Grotto Church
155
Capernaum
160
Endor Horvat
167
Sinai Egypt and Tunisia
213
Dier Abu Mina outside Alexandria
219
Ben Ezra Synagogue Coptic Cairo
224
Red
230
Tgeban Desert Village of Atripe
236
Lebanon Syria Jordan Iran Iraq
248
Iran Iraq Jordan
249
Jordan
257
Lebanon and Syria
265
Mari near Abü Kamä
281
Greece and Turkey
284
Lesbos
291
Turkey
303
Orthodox Patriarchate
312
Seleucia Silifke
318
Bibliography
335
Index
343
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Página 11 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not ! Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate.
Página 21 - We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn." For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, "He has a demon"; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!
Página 30 - Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
Página 18 - Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Página 84 - For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!' 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; and to the hills, 'Cover us.
Página 36 - I will follow you wherever you go." And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
Página 153 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Página 8 - Though she is but one, she can do all things, and while remaining in herself, she renews all things; in every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God, and prophets; for God loves nothing so much as the man who lives with wisdom.
Página 19 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together.
Página 131 - Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

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