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Ann Belford Ulanov

The Female Ancestors
of Christ

DAIMON

VERLAG

An earlier edition of this book was published by Shambhala, Boston, in 1993.

ISBN 978-3-85630-981-7

All rights reserved – no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review in a magazine or newspaper.

Cover painting by Barry Ulanov.

Contents

1. Why These Women? Why These Four?

2. Tamar

3. Rahab

4. Ruth

5. Bathsheba

6. Conclusion

Notes

Appendix

About the Author

for

Ruth Pine Belford

and

Anneliese Aumüller