Bible Study

In the Old Testament, women are depicted as beautiful, endearing, dedicated, and supportive. However, in other sections, they are depicted as conniving, jealous, aggressive, and indecisive. The book of Genesis has many stories within stories showing women as wives, sisters, daughters, mother's and friends.

Hagar and Ishmael were cast out of their own family because Sarah was jealous and afraid. Sarah was not wrong for feeling jealousy and fear, but she chose to stay in these emotions, to act within them, and therefore, turning against others. The consequences of her actions were loss and pain.

Sarah obviously feels that the lord has prevented her from having children; that she was not given that gift. In turn, she gives her handmaid, Hagar to Abraham, so she can have a child through her gift of God. This act along seems strange in my eyes, as a woman. I live in the age of freedom for women, as opposed to years of oppression. What I am living goes against everything they stood for. Sarah