(10-23-2019, 10:13 AM)fifteenth Wrote: I want to trace the concept of "barrenness" through the scriptures
So real quick.... Abraham and Sarah....then Rebekah....then Rachel...so the mothers of ALL the patriarchs.
The mother of Samson.
Hannah, the mother of one of the first prophets, Samuel.
Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, the forerunner of the Christ.
Mary, the mother of Jesus....not barren, but no man is involved.
You also get in Hosea 9 and 11 the imagery of the nation as barren and not producing offspring (I think in the spiritual sense).