*decides to do five three (I'm running out of time) characters from the OT that hardly anybody ever talks about*
1. Barzillai the Gileadite, a man who took his wife's family name. 2. Sheerah, the woman who built three cities (Upper and Lower Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sheerah) 3. Zelophehad's daughters, who successfully petitioned to inherit their father's land when he had no sons -- and started a precedent for later generations of Israel.
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Date: 2007-09-09 12:31 pm (UTC)*decides to do
fivethree (I'm running out of time) characters from the OT that hardly anybody ever talks about*1. Barzillai the Gileadite, a man who took his wife's family name.
2. Sheerah, the woman who built three cities (Upper and Lower Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sheerah)
3. Zelophehad's daughters, who successfully petitioned to inherit their father's land when he had no sons -- and started a precedent for later generations of Israel.
I thought you might like those.