Meet every woman in Scripture — and finally understand what she was doing there
A rigorous, character-driven study of every major biblical woman — her personality, her choices, her authority, and her permanent mark on redemptive history. This is the Bible study you've been waiting for someone to teach seriously.
"The women of Scripture don't need to be rescued from complexity — they need to be read with the same rigor and reverence we'd give any figure whose life shaped the story of God."— Sky Hacker
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and compare the core personality traits, motivations, and behaviors of every major woman in the Bible across both Testaments.
- Analyze how the decisions — both faithful and flawed — of biblical women directly shaped pivotal moments in Israelite and early Christian history.
- Evaluate the forms of authority (spiritual, social, political, and prophetic) that biblical women exercised and the cultural constraints they navigated.
- Apply character-contrast frameworks to lead richer, more nuanced Bible study discussions in small group or classroom settings.
- Articulate a theologically grounded perspective on female agency, virtue, and leadership as modeled throughout Scripture.
- Develop a personal devotional practice rooted in the lessons — positive and cautionary — drawn from the full spectrum of biblical women's lives.
How it works
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The curriculum
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6 modules · 29 lessons
Foundations: Reading Biblical Women Well
Equips students with the interpretive tools, theological framework, and cultural context needed to study biblical women with depth and fairness.
- 1.1Why Women in Scripture Still MatterIncluded
- 1.2Reading Ancient Texts with Modern EyesIncluded
- 1.3The Character-Contrast FrameworkIncluded
- 1.4Gender, Power, and Culture in the Biblical WorldIncluded
In the Beginning: Women of the Torah
Examines the founding matriarchs and key female figures of the Pentateuch, comparing their faith, flaws, and formative impact on Israel's origins.
- 2.1Eve — Desire, Deception, and the First ConsequenceIncluded
- 2.2Sarah and Hagar — Faith, Fear, and a Fractured HouseholdIncluded
- 2.3Rebekah — The Architect Behind the BlessingIncluded
- 2.4Rachel and Leah — Rivalry, Love, and the Twelve TribesIncluded
- 2.5Tamar, Shiphrah, Puah, and Jochebed — Survival, Subversion, and CourageIncluded
Leaders, Prophets, and Survivors: Women of the Historical Books
Profiles the diverse women who exercised authority, endured suffering, or wielded influence during Israel's national life from the judges through the monarchy.
- 3.1Miriam and Deborah — Prophet, Priest, and JudgeIncluded
- 3.2Rahab and Ruth — Outsiders Who Rewrote the StoryIncluded
- 3.3Jephthah's Daughter, Jael, and the Women of the Judges EraIncluded
- 3.4Hannah and the Unnamed Women of SamuelIncluded
- 3.5Bathsheba, Michal, and Abigail — Power, Vulnerability, and Wisdom in the Royal CourtIncluded
Courage and Controversy: Women of the Wisdom and Prophetic Books
Explores the complex, symbolic, and often provocative female figures woven through Israel's poetry, wisdom literature, and prophetic writings.
- 4.1The Virtuous Woman and the Strange Woman — Proverbs' Dual PortraitIncluded
- 4.2The Beloved and the Shulammite — Voice and Desire in Song of SongsIncluded
- 4.3Esther and Judith — Beauty, Strategy, and DeliveranceIncluded
- 4.4Jezebel, Athaliah, and the Female Villains of ProphecyIncluded
- 4.5The Prophetic Female Voice — From Huldah to the Daughters Who Will ProphesyIncluded
Women at the Center of the Gospel: New Testament Portraits
Examines the women surrounding Jesus and the early church, comparing their faith, discipleship, ministry roles, and theological significance.
- 5.1Mary the Mother of Jesus — Surrender, Sorrow, and Singular CallingIncluded
- 5.2Elizabeth, Anna, and the Women Who Recognized the Messiah FirstIncluded
- 5.3Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, and Martha — Three Models of DevotionIncluded
- 5.4The Samaritan Woman, the Syrophoenician Woman, and Women at the MarginsIncluded
- 5.5Women Who Funded, Followed, and Witnessed — The Female DisciplesIncluded
Church Builders and Cautionary Tales: Women of the Epistles and Acts
Traces the roles, authority, conflicts, and enduring lessons of women in the earliest Christian communities as recorded in Acts and the New Testament letters.
- 6.1Priscilla, Phoebe, and Lydia — Leaders at the Heart of the Early ChurchIncluded
- 6.2Eunice, Lois, and the Women of Faithful FormationIncluded
- 6.3Sapphira, the Jezebel of Thyatira, and Women Who Corrupted CommunityIncluded
- 6.4Comparing Both Testaments — Patterns, Progress, and the Arc of Female AgencyIncluded
- 6.5Applying the Framework — Leading Richer Bible Studies on Biblical WomenIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Small Group Leaders
Equip yourself with the character-contrast framework and historical context to lead far richer, more honest Bible study conversations than a study guide alone can give you.
Seminary Students
Develop a rigorous, panoramic view of female agency across both Testaments that will sharpen your exegesis and inform your theology of gender, authority, and vocation.
Sunday School Teachers
Move beyond the highlight-reel lesson and give your class the full, textured portrait of women like Deborah, Esther, and Mary Magdalene that their stories deserve.
Devoted Lay Readers
If you've always sensed there's more beneath the surface of these women's stories, this school gives you the tools and the depth to finally find it.
Pastors & Ministers
Build a theologically grounded, historically honest foundation for preaching and teaching on biblical women — including the complex, controversial, and often-skipped ones.
Women in Ministry
See your own calling reflected in the full spectrum of female leadership in Scripture — prophets, patrons, judges, and apostolic co-workers — and articulate its biblical grounding with confidence.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Sky Hacker
If you've ever finished a Bible study on a woman like Rebekah or Mary Magdalene and thought, that barely scratched the surface — I want you to know that frustration is completely legitimate. The stories are richer than a single lesson can hold. The women are more complex than the tidy takeaway suggests. And the questions their lives raise — about authority, about faithfulness, about what God was doing through them — deserve more than a footnote.
I built this school because I believe the women of Scripture have been chronically understudied, not out of malice, but out of habit. We know the stories. We quote the verses. But we rarely slow down long enough to ask: what kind of person was Hagar, really? What was Esther's actual strategy, and how did she pull it off? Why does Proverbs give us both the Virtuous Woman and the Strange Woman — and what are we supposed to do with that tension? These are the questions I find myself unable to stop asking, and they are the questions this school is built to pursue.
What I want for you by the time we reach Phoebe and Priscilla in the Epistles is not a list of inspiring women to admire from a distance. I want you to have a framework — a way of reading these texts that lets you hold historical context and theological weight in the same hand. I want you to be able to sit down with your small group, or your seminary class, or your own journal, and do something substantive with Rachel's rivalry, with Bathsheba's vulnerability, with the Samaritan woman's five-husband history. Not to explain them away. To understand them.
I also want to be honest with you: some of these stories are hard. Jephthah's daughter doesn't get a rescue. Michal ends her story in silence. The Jezebel of Thyatira is a warning, not a hero. I think it does a disservice to women — in Scripture and in our congregations — to skip past those stories or soften them past recognition. We'll go there. We'll sit in the discomfort. And I believe you'll come away from those harder studies with a more honest, more resilient faith than the comfortable version would have given you.
This school is for you if you are ready to study Scripture the way it rewards being studied: slowly, comparatively, with both your mind and your heart fully engaged. Pull up a chair at the seminar table. The text has more to say than we've been listening for.
— Sky Hacker
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