Bathsheba
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Government and Politics, Women’s Issues, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples
- Curriculum: Women’s History, Middle Eastern History, Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Israeli noblewoman{$I[g]Israel;Bathsheba} Bathsheba wielded occasional power behind the thrones of Israel’s second and third monarchs. According to the New Testament, she was an ancestor of Jesus Christ.
Early Life
Few details are known of the life of Bathsheba (bath-SHEE-bah), yet her story, as narrated in passages from First Kings, Second Samuel, and First Chronicles of the Hebrew Bible, is dramatically tantalizing. Though rabbinical sages and church fathers make reference to her from time to time, only the salient facts of her...
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