- Question 1: This Egyptian born Hebrew woman was Israel's first prophetess and the elder sister of two important leaders of the children of Israel. She was also Israel's first cantor.
- Answer: Miriam the elder sister of Aaron and Moses (Ex 15:20-21)
- Question 2: This bad girl from Jericho became the heroine of the Israelite conquest of her city.
- Answer: Rahab (Josh chapter 2).
- Question 3: How else is Rahab known in the New Testament?
- Answer: She is one of only four women named in Jesus genealogy as an ancestress (Mt 1:5), she is named in the list of "Heroes of the Faith" (Heb 11:31), and she is praised by St. James for her demonstration of faith through good deeds (Jam 2:25).
- Question 4: This Israelite prophetess was the only woman judge during the historical period of the judges of Israel and the only woman in the Bible to ride into battle against the Canaanites with her general, Barak.
- Answer: Deborah the wife of Lappidoth (Judg 4:4, 8).
- Question 5: This non-Israelite woman and ally of the Israelites killed Israel's enemy the Canaanite general Sisera.
- Answer: Jael the wife of the Kenite named Heber (Judg 4:17, 21-22).
- Question 6: This daughter of King Saul helped David escape from Saul's palace when her father threatened David's life
- Answer: Michal, the younger daughter of King Saul, the sister of Jonathan and the first wife of the hero David. She risked her father's anger by helping David escape (1 Sam 18:20, 27; 19:11-17).
- Question 7: In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon and Assyria, this beautiful Israelite widow delivered her people during a time of crisis by deceiving and then killing the enemy's romantically inclined general Holofernes.
- Answer: Judith (Judith 8:1-2; 13:4-10).
- Question 8: This lovely Israelite girl became the Queen of Persia and delivered her people from a plan by a Persian nobleman to commit genocide against her people.
- Answer: Esther (Book of Esther).
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