Uranus was given the name Oron, which means little light; Neptune was named Rahab, for a sea monster mentioned in the Bible and Talmud. The names were chosen in an on-line vote by the Israeli ...

Various other women have had prominence in the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments ... but also Tamar, Rahab the harlot, and Bathsheba, mother of Solomon. Jesus Christ had several prominent ...

By rendering scripture with a capital S and by colloquially offering narrative glosses of foundational Bible stories (Joseph, Rahab, Jacob wrestling the angel, the figure of the eunuch), Kearns ...