Leah was so bold and wanted a husband so bad, she took over her sisters wedding tent. She became the mother of the Jews.

Ruth sneakily crawed into bed with Boaz and became the Grandmother of King David.

Guys need encouragement...go get them girls

Lot's daughters made him drunk and had sex with him.

Oct 21, 2009 -- 1:41PM, Svetlana wrote:

Oct 21, 2009 -- 12:08PM, Kwinters wrote:

Oct 21, 2009 -- 12:00PM, dsfin wrote:

Leah was so bold and wanted a husband so bad, she took over her sisters wedding tent. She became the mother of the Jews.

Ruth sneakily crawed into bed with Boaz and became the Grandmother of King David.

Guys need encouragement...go get them girls

Sarah allowed Abraham to whore her out to the Pharoah (or however it's spelled, I can't be bothered to look it up at the moment).

Hagar bore Abraham a child and then he did nothing when Sarah booted her and his child out into the wilderness.

Lot's wife did nothing when he offered his virgin daughters up to his townsfolk.

 

You're right about Sarah and Lot's wife, but Hagar was a slave and there was nothing she could do.  ALL women were considered sub-human livestock, so the little that some managed was pretty big indeed.

I agree Hagar got the smelly end of the stick, but that idiot Abraham could have stood up for his child and his babymama, protected them and took care of them considering they were so vulnerable.

What an ass he was!

Aggressive women rock!

My wife made me say that.

'Esther' is not a Hebrew word:  it, like the story, comes from Persia.  'Esther' is actually the same as 'Aster'  and means 'star'.  The Hebrew word for 'star' is 'kochav'.....   So who is 'Esther' in Hebrew? ' Hadassah', which means 'myrtle' as in the tree.  It's one of the 'four species' of Succot.  Myrtle has a nice smell but no taste:  it's likened to one who has done good deeds, but has not studied Torah. 

Before we go about assuming connections between one language and another, it helps to be aware of how those two languages are structured and the sounds which are or are not part of its vocabulary.   And transliterations are often more of a hindrance than any help - unless again, one knows the system which the transliteration was using.  Hebrew, for example, contains NO sound like the English 'J' :  the closest is English 'Y'.  Nor does Hebrew have any sound resembling the 'th' of English 'thing' (a sound represented in OE by the letter 'thorn'):  that 'little town' would be properly pronounced "BET-leh-CHem" (with the CH being the guttural 'German' version' not the 'ch' of 'chap')....