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I see folks on social media say "Biblical wife" like every single woman in the OT/NT was an obedient housekeeper
But then I say: "so when you say Biblical wife, you mean like Heber's wife Jael, who drove a tent spike through Sisera's head to save Israel from the Canaanites?"
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But then I say: "so when you say Biblical wife, you mean like Heber's wife Jael, who drove a tent spike through Sisera's head to save Israel from the Canaanites?"
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"Do you mean like Hadassah, also known as Esther, who saved her husband king Ahasuerus from an assassination attempt, then defied his court protocol that none should enter his presence without a summons in order to save her people (the Jews) from Haman's intended pogrom?"
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"Is your dream Biblical wife Michal, who warned David that Saul was out for blood, let him out through a window, and put a statue in his bed as a decoy? Imagine having to basically share your husband with your brother (ngl, they were very close) AND protect him from your dad"
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"Are you after a Biblical woman like Ruth the Moabite, who lost her husband and then went with her mother-in-law Naomi back to Bethlehem (I bet moving to Judea from Moab is hard) and married her late husband's kinsman Boaz in order to not starve?" (weird flex if you are)
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"Ah, maybe an ideal Biblical wife is Eve — have you heard of Eve? — who learned that Deity achieved their transcendent state by acquiring knowledge and experience, and then rightly decided it was time to chomp the forbidden snacc and head out of Eden. My kind of trailblazer."
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"Maybe you're after a Biblical woman like Mary, the mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was probably looked down upon because of her premarital pregnancy, had to travel by donkey right before going into labor, and then became a refugee to protect her son from Herod?"
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"Is a Biblical woman like the tradeswoman Lydia of Thyatira, who upon her conversion at Philippi offered her hospitality and her resources to Paul and the other missionaries? Bruh, do you think your masculinity can take a Forbes-tier CEO and philanthropist wife?"
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"If Lydia is Too Much™ for you, maybe you'd like a Priscilla. You can co-run your tentmaking business, but your brand is Priscilla & Aquila. Your name gets mentioned before hers only twice out of the six times it occurs in the Bible, so she's definitely also the CEO here."
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"Is your trad Biblical woman Joanna, the wife of the steward of Herod the Tetrarch, who gets healed by that rascally rogue rabbi Jesus and then spends all her time feeding him and those other disreputable Galileans, even taking spices to his tomb to help embalm him? Gasp."
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It's okay to say you want (or want to be) a stay-at-home, domestic woman. They exist! Many of them like that life! But be honest in your intentions. Don't appeal to the authority of the Bible to say what women should and shouldn't be like. Biblical women defy expectations.
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Epilogue: If you've read this far, share YOUR favorite Biblical woman. I didn't mention Tzipora or Hannah or Deborah or most of the ladies in Acts, so there's a lot left unsaid.
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