Women in the Bible

Samaritan Woman

John 4:7-42

• John 4:9-10 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• Moore, Stephen D. “Are There Impurities in the Living Water That the Johannine Jesus Dispenses? Deconstruction, Feminism, and the Samaritan Woman'.” Biblical Interpretation, vol. 1, no. 2, 1993.

• Lessons from the woman at the well by Mary Aquin O’Neill

• “The First Female Evangelist” by Marlena Graves

• "Jesus and the Samaritan Woman" by Sarah Christine Schwartz

• “Identity Confirmation: John 4:5-42” by Barbara Brown Taylor

• “To Build Coalitions, Follow the Example of the Samaritan Woman and Jesus” by Rev. Dr. Jaime Clark-Soles

• “Wounds and Wells; A Sermon on The Samaritan Woman” by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Books

• Back to the Well: Women’s Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels, Frances Taylor Gench, 2004.

• “The Woman at the Well” by James F. McGrath

• "The Samaritan Woman" (Ch.3) in Women in the Life of the Bridegroom by Adeline Fehribach (1998)

• “Samaritan Woman” (p.454) by Adele Reinhartz in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• “Gospel of John” by Gail R. O’Day in Women’s Bible Commentary: Revised and Updated, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

• “Conclusion: So I Hear You Have Five Husbands…” in Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire by Jennifer Wright Knust (2011)