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A book that challenges the rest of the Bible by asking how a good God can permit so much suffering.

A warrior and prophetess, she's the only woman in the Hebrew Bible with hard political power who is portrayed positively.

Isaac's wife and Jacob's mother, the second matriarch survived a difficult pregnancy and engineered the future of the Jewish people.

A story about prophecy and repentance—but not in the way you think.

He could kill a lion or topple a temple with his bare hands, but succumbed to the love of a treacherous woman. Many wild traditions circulated about the first Jewish superhero.

Israel’s third patriarch was born into great dysfunction, but found ways to create the first cohesive family in the Bible.

The first wife of Jacob endured a loveless marriage, but her story is one of perseverance.

One of the Bible’s many barren women, she had the grace and grit to become mother to the "Jewish Hercules."

Successor to the prophet Elijah, he healed the sick, raised the dead, and made iron float—but he was also a prophet who made serious mistakes.

The sister of Moses and Aaron was an important part of the sibling team that led Israel out of Egypt and through the wilderness.

Miriam's instinctive song of praise tells us something important about calling out to God.

The unusual circumstances of Rabin's marriage, his true feelings about Moshe Dayan, and other lesser-known facts about the legendary Israeli leader.