Hagar’s Modern Daughter

Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion (Ann Braude 2004)
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My Muslim Ancestor Hagar

LILITH, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 26 29, spring, 1997.
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Everyone knows Hagar was Sarah’s maid who was made available to Abraham and then sent away with her son into the wilderness. . . a very modern story of class exploitation, sexual abuse, and the oppression of a vulnerable woman by her male-identified female boss. This, however, is a secular reductionist view of Hagar’s story. The story of Hagar is best told through her eyes. I am going to retell it here, looking back to what I consider part of my own history.

Hagar on My Mind

Philosophy, Feminism and Faith, Ruth Groenhout and Marya Bowers, eds., pp. 198-210 (Indiana University, 2003).

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Video Interview by Marie Failinger

AALS Section on Women in Legal Education; Oral History Project.

Bill Moyers, “Call and the Promise,” GENESIS

When God chooses Abraham to found a dynasty, how does Abraham react? Scholar Robert Alter; law professor Azizah Y. al-Hibri; novelist Bharati Mukherjee; community activist Eugene Rivers III; theologians Lewis B. Smedes and Burton L. Visotzky; and playwright-composer Elizabeth Swados join Bill Moyers for this discussion.

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