Category: Biblical meditations

Sometimes you do everything "the right way" but sometimes it's of no use if those around you don't know how to listen to you. This is what happens to Tamar, in 2 Samuel 13, a girl who does everything properly. But absolutely everything. She is the daughter of King David, so she grows up in a world where words count, laws too,...

Abstract of Elaine James*'s text on Sarah, Hagar, and Their Interpreters, from the Women's Bible Commentary. Revised and Updated, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, published by Westminster John Knox Press (United States), 2012. Freely translated and adapted by Project Gionata volunteers. Read from a female perspective, the biblical story...

Biblical reflections by theologian Kerstin Söderblom* for the QueerBibel project** published on the website of the Allianz Gleichwürdig Katholisch*** (Catholic Alliance for Equal Dignity, Switzerland) in August 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project I am Jacob, son of Rebecca and Isaac. I live in Beer-Sheva, in southern Canaan. I obtained the birthright blessing from my father Isaac by deception, even...