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Really Bad Girls of the Bible: More Lessons from Less than Perfect Women »

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Authors: Liz Curtis Higgs
ISBN-13: 9781578561261, ISBN-10: 1578561264
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Liz Curtis Higgs

Liz Curtis Higgs is an award-winning speaker and best-selling author who has touched the hearts and funny bones of women around the world for more than fifteen years. As the author of fifteen books, with over one million copies in print, including Bad Girls of the Bible and Only Angels Can Wing It, Liz offers her faithful readers real-life humor and grace-filled encouragement. Liz and her husband, Bill, live with their two children in Kentucky.

Book Synopsis

When it Comes to Badness, There's Nothing New Under the Sun

In her best-selling book Bad Girls of the Bible, Liz Curtis Higgs breathed new life into ancient stories depicting eight of the most infamous women in scriptural history, from Jezebel to Delilah. Biblically sound and cutting-edge fresh, Bad Girls already has helped thousands of women experience God's grace anew by learning more about our nefarious sisters.

And there are more where they came from! With Really Bad Girls of the Bible, Liz reveals the power of God's sovereignty in the lives of other shady ladies we know by reputation but have rarely studied in depth: Bathsheba, the bathing beauty. Jael, the tent-peg-toting warrior princess. Herodias, the horrible beheader. Tamar, the widow and not-so-timid temptress. Athaliah, the deadly daughter of Jezebel. And three ancient women whose names we do not know but who have much to teach us: the ashamed Adulteress, the bewitching Medium of En Dor, and the desperate Bleeding Woman.

The eye-opening stories of these eight "Really Bad" women demonstrate one really life-changing concept: the sovereign power of God to rule our hearts and our lives with grace, compassion, and hope.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments9
Introduction: Nightfall11
1Dead Man Talking: Medium of En Dor: Bad Moon Rising27
2Lethal Weapon: Jael: Bad for a Good Reason73
3Peculiar Grace: The Adulteress: Bad, but Not Condemned118
4Blood Will Tell: Athaliah: Bad and Proud of It163
5Bathing Beauty: Bathsheba: Bad Moon Rising211
6Just Desserts: Herodias: Bad and Proud of It276
7Veiled Threat: Tamar the Widow: Bad for a Good Reason325
8Tears of a Clown: The Bleeding Woman: Bad, but Not Condemned384
Conclusion: Rebel's Heart429
Study Guide434
Notes440

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