Can you name any women prophets from the Bible? In the Hebrew Scriptures, five women receive that title or role. Miriam, Moses’ sister, leads the women in song and praise after crossing the Red ...

This lack of Biblical books assigned specifically to women, or baring their name, does not mean that women did not play major roles in Biblical (or Modern) Jewish history.

At its simplest, biblical prophets are those women and men who proclaim messages from God for the good of God's people. All had in common the ability to preach with power in times of religious crisis.

Other books in the Bible refer to Deborah (Judges 4:4) and Huldah (2 Kings 22:14-20) as prophets. The Talmud (Megillah 14a) states that there were seven female prophets of Israel: one of them ...

But in, 'Women of the Bible Speak,' Bream tells the tale from a different perspective: Miriam's. CHILD CRUSHED BY VEHICLE SURVIVES, CREDITS BIBLE VERSE FOR SAVING HIM "In the book of Exodus, we ...

Wil Gafney is a womanist biblical scholar and Episcopal priest who teaches at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Her books include Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel ...

The very existence of this accessible scholarly study of women prophets corrects the long-held notion that prophecy is a male-only biblical role. Gafney communicates clearly the news that female ...