Women in the Bible

Hannah

1 Samuel 1:1-2:21

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles:

• “Hannah: Bible” by Lillian Klein from Jewish Women’s Archive

• "Hannah" by Ruth Fidler

• “This Rosh Hashanah, we need to listen to Hannah’s feminist story” by Rishe Groner

• “A Wife's Vow – The Husband's Woe? The Case of Hannah and Elkanah (I Samuel 1,21.23)” by Ruth Fidler

• Reconceiving Infertility: Biblical Perspectives on Procreation and Childlessness by Joel Baden and Candida Moss (2015)

• “This Rosh Hashanah, We Need to Listen to Hannah’s Feminist Story” by Rishe Groner

• “Hannah: More Than a Mother” by Tracey Stringer

  
  

Books:

• “Hannah: Forsaken to Faithful” (Chapter 4, pp.59-72) by Natalia Kohn in Hermanas: Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence (2019)

• “Hannah and Her Sacrifice: Reclaiming Female Agency” (pp.93-104) by Carol Meyers in A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings edited by Athalya Brenner (1994)

• “Hannah: Maligned Victim and Social Redeemer” (pp.77-92) by Lillian Klein in A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings edited by Athalya Brenner (1994)