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Martha

Luke 10:38-39, John 11:1, John 12:1

  • Luke 10:38-39 Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

  • “Mary and Martha: Celebrating the Gifts of Others” by Janet Galante and Molly Kate Hance

  • "Mary and Martha" by Mary Ann Beavis

  • "Sermon On Mary And Martha" by Nadia Bolz Weber

  • "Martha, Misunderstood" by Cara Strickland

  • "'Do you believe this?' (Isaiah 25:6-9; John 11:32-44)" by Niveen Ibrahim Sarras

Books

  • Ch. 13 (pp. 112-118) of Hidden Women of the Gospels by Kathy Coffey

  • “Martha’s Splendid Moment” (Ch.13) in Hidden Women of the Gospels by Kathy Coffey (1996)

  • "Mary and Martha of Bethany" (Ch.4) in Women in the Life of the Bridegroom by Adeline Fehribach (1998)

  • "Luke" by Jane Schaberg in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe (1998)

  • "Martha" by Raymond F. Collins in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 4 (1992)

To correctly use the search bar, follow these guidelines:

  • Use proper capitalization (for example, capitalize “N” in “Naomi” instead of writing “naomi”)

  • Use proper spacing (“Mary of Bethany” as opposed to “MaryofBethany”)

  • Write out the full name of the woman you’re searching for, if you know it (for example, “The Samaritan Woman”). If writing out the full name does not work, simply type in “Samaritan” and see if “The Samaritan Woman” appears.

  • If the search bar is still not yielding your results, it might be because we have altered the woman’s name based on scholarship we found (for example, we have Naomi listed as “Naomi/Mara”). You can always find a specific woman by going to the navigation bar, clicking Old Testament or New Testament, and scrolling down to her appropriate genre and book.

  • To find a woman manually, note that the women listed on this site are listed in the order they appear in scripture (for example, women in Genesis chapter 1 are listed before women in Genesis chapter 2).

This project has been created by Founder and Executive Director Debbie McLeod alongside a team of Yale-educated researchers: Anna Grace Glaize, McKenzie Brummond, Moriah Asch, Brian Peterson, Laura Traverse, Phoebe Oler, and Sarah Ambrose

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