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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One: Social implications
  • "Whatever Sarah tells you, do as she says"
  • Sarah as sister and wife
  • From Ur to Hebron, city of Sarah
  • The matriarchs' authority
  • Examining the non-patriarchal social system and genealogy in Genesis
  • Part Two: Religious implications
  • "Everyone who hears will laugh with me"
  • Religion in the ancient Near East
  • Oracular shrines and trading centers
  • Sarah as priestess
  • The Hieros Gamos
  • Supernatural conception
  • Part Three: Conclusions
  • The meaning of the life of Sarah
  • Appendix A: The Genesis texts
  • B: Traditional genealogical table of the patriarchs.