Women In Genesis

The essay topic I would like to discuss the treatment and actions of the women in Genesis. Their stories are well known, with many translations. With the help of Mr. Robert Alter, we will learn about only three main women. First with Lot’s daughters and the situation Lot put them in. But the real question is the actions of the girls and why. The second women is about Abraham’s wife, Rebekah. Rebekah is a mother who protects her child even if she has to do wrong. The last woman we will be discussing is Rachel. She has to experience betrayal and competition. Each of these women have different situations, but they all have one thing in common. Continuing the family seed is what all women in that time period purpose was.
Let’s begin with Lot’s
In according to Robert Alter, “Rebekah substitutes that I solemnly bless you in the actual speech on which she eavesdrops, thus heightened the sense of the sacred and irrevocable character of the blessing she wants Jacob to steal.” Rebekah helped her favorite son Jacob trick his father Issac into giving him the blessing intended for his twin brother Esau. In fact, she seems to have initiated and directed the plot. Rebekah’s role in this deception is often viewed pejoratively— as favoritism, disrespect for her husband, and harmful to the family. In the Hebrew
The cultural standards when it comes to the name of family. Until recent times, with very rare exceptions, males have always been the dominant head and spokesman for the family unit. The Scriptures support that God made man to be the head of the family, and for the woman to be his helper. We do find in the stories that family lines mostly go through women. In rare cases where a man has only daughters, he searches to find a man to take his family title with the hand of his daughter. With Lot’s daughters and Rachel’s experience this at one point in