Bathsheb The First Woman

to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you,to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears,and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters." Genghis Khan, much like the Hebrew Bible during certain points, regards women as objects. However, to write the Hebrew Bible off as fully misogynistic would not do the ancient texts justice. From Genesis to Judges 2, the Hebrew Bible objectifies women, uses them as scapegoats, but during certain points rises them to the level of highly admired Prophets and warriors. This essay attempts to explore the various undertones of femininity depicted throughout the Hebrew Bible.

Throughout history, there have been certain gender roles established for both males and females. For ages, many held the belief that women must fit a certain mold— good wife, housekeeper, caretaker, etc.,— solely based on the notion that "that 's what women are supposed to do". These societal standards that women are held to are prevalent in all kinds of literature, ranging from works from biblical times to the late nineteenth century. Through her novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin shows a contrast between the characters of Mademoiselle Reisz and Adèle Ratignolle versus that of Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of God as seen in the bible. This contrast pits the image of

Being born as a slaveBorn a slave, Harriet Tubman iscan be defined as a self-liberated abolitionist who is hthat is honored for saving hundreds of slaves and helping them reach freedom. Harriet Tubman struggled through her early years working as a slave for plantation owners. Harriet wapossessed ves very little worth to anyone, she never got the respect or companionship that which a person needs. She faced discrimination, racism, and torture from all of her owners. Harriet Tuman dealt with Overcoming various difficult obstacles with the help of other abolitionists, Harriet helped give back to the people by giving slaves freedom, an education, and a place to live. Despite all the of her hardships, Harriet Tubman became known as one of the

On a cold night in the middle of winter, a weary slave ran across the field to the woods. There he met Harriet Tubman, the conductor, and the rest of her sore-footed but hopeful passengers who were ready to start the long, treacherous journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman, later called “Moses”, was a runaway slave who came back to her people and helped over 300 of them gain freedom.

Harriet tubman(also known as moses) was an african-american slave who freed over 750 of her people from slavery. her birthname was Araminta ross she was a conducter of the undergroung railroad who was also a union spy,nurse and scout during he civil war. she was born with a disiability and into slavery. although she never learned how to read or write she risked her life time and time again to save and free her people. during these trips she brought a gun to make sure her and the slaves were protected and also so if a slave threatened to turn and tell or want to stop she forces them to keep going. to keep these slaves going she often told them stories about how good it was to be free and tales of other free slves and how they disguised themselves

Harriet Tubman, the Moses of the slaves, was an unlettered individual who was brutally abused but fought through her life’s cruel challenges and struggles, saved countless lives along the way (risking her own), and wholeheartedly supported what she believed. Since a very young age Harriet, being a slave, was mercilessly mistreated by her master. On one occasion, she was hit in the head with a sack by a slave owner when she refused to help him find one of his slaves that had run away from him. The blow to the head caused lifelong head trauma and seizures. In addition, she would have sporadic visions that she believed were sent from God. As evident, Harriet Tubman’s life was full of hardships and difficulty.

Harriet Tubman was a spy for the US Army during the American Civil war. Tubman was known for her thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends. Born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, as a child Tubman used to get whipped and beaten by her various masters in her early life.

The two passages I read were: “Leaders of the Civil War Era: Harriet Tubman” by Ann Malaspina and “The woman called Moses” by Walter Oleksy & Meg Mims. These two texts tell about the life of historical figure Harriet Tubman. Although the documents are about someone who actually lived, it has two different purposes.

During the pre-emancipation years that claimed the beginning of Harriet Tubman's life, she was exposed to the experience of a circumstantial slave system. Enslaved in the Southern state of Maryland, just on the brink of the established free states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the wistful opportunity for escape loomed in the minds of every subjugated servant. As the Underground Railroad developed numerous stations, the chance for the flight to freedom suddenly became attainable. Freedom from a life of strenuous toil was within grasp for those daring enough to take the trek. Harriet Tubman, the slave-become-conductor was a revolutionary woman, boldly operating and redirecting the Underground Railroad to free hundreds of slaves from their

* Harriet Tubman was and still is a very important women in today’s society. She was an American woman who escaped from slavery in the South who then became an abolitionist before the American Civil War. Born in Maryland in 1820, and escaped slavery in 1849. She decided to return to rescue both family members and non-relatives from slavery. She led many people to freedom in the North as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad which was a secret network of safe houses organized for free slaves to stay safe. After escaping slavery Harriet Tubman fled to Philadelphia. Tubman decided to escape because an illness struck her owner and killed was killed in 1849. Later on Tubman left Maryland with her two of her brothers.

2. Bathsheba in 2 Samuel chapter, 11, was docile and remorseful. Whereas; in 1 Kings Bathsheba, is not necessarily forceful or aggressive. She is more questioning, asking, pleading, and consoling, with a mother’s love and care for her own son’s future (Solomon).

Though, the likeliness of this promise seems low, as letting Solomon, one of his younger sons, succeed him would be going against the normal order of the court. Regardless, the circumstance in which this promise is revealed to David, as well as the reader, is peculiar enough to warrant doubt. The prophet Nathan, who Baden notes “only appears three times” ( Baden 234) in the biblical text, instructs Bathsheba to remind David of this promise (1 Kings 1:11), telling her that confronting David will “save…[her] life… and the life of… [her] son Solomon” (1 Kings 1:12)-- introducing the notion that somehow Adonijah’s kingship would be a threat to their livelihood, though this is no evidence for this, especially considering Solomon is young enough that he bears no threat to obtaining Adonijah’s crown. Because of the lack of evidence in the alleged promise, it is possible that Nathan and Bathsheba wanted to take advantage of the king’s declining mental state in order to make Solomon king.

But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; from the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, “You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. First Kings 11:1-3 indicates that King Solomon had 700 hundred wives and 300 hundred concubines, many from lands of which God had previously instructed the Israelites to avoid intermarrying. God knew that such intermarrying would lead to the worship of false gods. Why, then,

Women in the past could be looked at as being inferior to a man. The Bible states in Genesis 1:27 that a woman and man was both made in His image. By his grace, female runners are capable to run 117 in a standard 8.4 minutes. This shows that times have changed because the Bible also states that women were not educated in the New Testament and were at the same level as a slave.

We have heard the story of David and Bathsheba many, many times before; but have you ever thought of King David (man after God’s own heart) as being a sinful and wicked