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Unveiled: Women Erased from the Bible: Hidden Stories of Biblical Women, Old Testament Heroines, and Forgotten Voices of Scripture, by Shelly Eshkoli www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4JBMRS7 FREE on June 21st! The Bible remembers their names, but not always their voices. The women of the Bible shaped kingdoms, families, faith, and history, yet many of their stories survive only in fragments. In Unveiled, biblical scholar and lecturer Shelly Eshkoli returns to the women of the Bible whose lives changed the course of Scripture, yet whose stories were often preserved only in brief, scattered verses. These were women who challenged kings, crossed boundaries, shaped dynasties, defied power, and stood at the center of the biblical drama, even when tradition left them at the margins. Very little was written about many of the women who shaped the Hebrew Bible. Of their intelligence, courage, faith, leadership, desire, political power, and spiritual force, only traces remain. But those traces are not silent. With a fresh and penetrating eye, Eshkoli reads between the lines of the biblical text, listening to the words that were preserved, the silences surrounding them, and the hints of what may have been lost through editing, interpretation, tradition, and time. She uncovers the hidden storms inside familiar stories and brings overlooked biblical women into vivid new focus.