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Compare And Contrast Rebecca And Mary Magdalene

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What these two stories have in common is that both women are seen as tricksters especially Tamar, who according to bellis has to use deception to get to her ends (Bellis 78) she needed to have a kid in order to have a place in society. While you can argue that Rebecca is a trickster, Tamar is not and the reason why is because tamar never actually claimed to be a prostitute Judah was the one who had mistaken her for a prostitute Tamar just never corrected him. When comparing Rebecca and Tamar to Mary the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene there aren’t many similarities except for Mary M. being unfairly labeled as a whore. In Mary Magdalene’s story it is said that Jesus cast the seven demons out of her, the seven demons are referring to the

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