The caricature of Rahab and other female characters in Scripture often sidelines their contribution. Several years ago, I was invited to write the notes for a new women’s study Bible.

Each character in the Bible, be it man, woman or child, has a name that has meaning and also to an extent can describe the character of the person. For example the name ‘Hadassah’, the Jewish name of ...

The Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman began scouring the Bible three years ago to do something that apparently had never been done: the cataloging of every word uttered by every woman in the more than ...