Women Driven by Divinity

Reading the genealogy of Christ in the gospel of Matthew (Matthew 1), four women were curiously mentioned, two of them, Rahab, and Ruth (the subjects of this book), a third, Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Judah, who supposedly played the harlot and conceived a child for Judah, the clever father-in-law. And finally, Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, a most loyal soldier to King David, who was brutally murdered by the King's command for selfish, adulterous reasons.

What amazes me each time I visit those verses of Scripture is the strangeness with which these four names stand out in a genealogy which would mention the fifth woman, Mary, the virgin, and mother of Jesus in passing, as it were. Find out what I discovered about Rahab the harlot, and Ruth the Moabitess, in this simple yet captivating 2-in-1 book.