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Biblical Storytelling At Its Best!Helen Bruch Pearson examines the biblical witness of:TamarRahabRuthBathshebaMary, the mother of JesusJoin Pearson as she fills in the gaps and helps history become her-story.""Helen Pearson has engaged stories of Jesus' female ancestors with great care, pondering biblical texts, biblical scholarship, and traditions of midrash. She shares her discoveries in the form of lively narratives. The result is a Bible study that is much needed and will be valued by people who yearn to discover the Bible's most hidden treasures.""--Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore, Professor of Religion and Education, Director, Women in Theology and Ministry, Candler School of Theology, Emory University""Insightful and provocative, these studies of Jesus' foremothers take the reader into the lives of five remarkable women. Pearson helps us see how these women who had little social power nevertheless made decisive contributions to the life of the Israelite people at critical junctures, even as they found ways to secure lives of dignity and justice for themselves. Mother Roots helps us understand why these unconventional and controversial women are lifted up for special notice in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus.""--Carol A. Newsom, Professor of Old Testament, Candler School of Theology, Emory UniversityHelen Bruch Pearson is a retreat, workshop, and seminar leader; guest teacher and preacher; designer and leader of worship and liturgical events. Emerita Professor of Theology, Candler School of Theology of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Pearson is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Along with many articles and curriculum studies, she is also the author of the popular Bible study Do What You Have the POWER to Do: Studies of Six New Testament Women.

Open the pages of Do What You Have the POWER to Do and you will meet, face to face and heart to heart, six New Testament women. You may have heard their stories before: the woman who anointed Jesus, the bent-over woman in the synagogue, the insistent Canaanite woman, the woman with the hemorrhage, the woman found in adultery, and the Samaritan woman at the well. After completing this study, you will feel as if you know them. Their empowering stories will become yours.""Do What You Have the POWER to Do is an excellent Bible study of six New Testament women and their experience with Jesus. With unusual sensitivity, Helen Pearson weaves biblical scholarship, social concern, and the reflective heart into a powerful understanding of what these women offer spiritual pilgrims today. This will be a transforming book for men and women.""--Luther E. Smith, Jr., PhD, author of Howard Thurman: The Mystic as ProphetHelen Bruch Pearson is a retreat, workshop, and seminar leader; guest teacher and preacher; and designer and leader of worship and liturgical events. Emerita Professor of Theology, Candler School of Theology of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, Pearson is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Along with many articles and curriculum studies, she is also the author of Mother Roots: The Female Ancestors of Jesus.