Phyllis Trible – Rereading Torah Towards Liberation

(#32) Beer Lahai-Roi

More on Hagar, including her naming of God at what is then called Beer Lahai Roi

(#31) Exodus without Liberation

Hagar and Ishmael, and their connection to Mitzrayim, add another layer to the story of the Yisrael-ites and Mitzrayim-ites. This stage quotes from Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narrative by Phyllis Trible. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.