But Hagar’s story is, among other things, an account of the origins of the Ishmaelites, dwellers in the wilderness who are acknowledged to be descendants of Abraham, close kin of the Hebrews.

Hagar’s story parallels Abraham’s to a stunning degree. She takes the first son into the wilderness, where his death seems imminent until an angel speaks and shows her a well. Abe takes the second son ...

"Hagar And Ishmael in the Desert" (1851) by Luigi Alois Gillarduzzi (Artvee) Coining the term "Wilderness Theology," Williams asserts that Black women, within the context of the larger Black ...

Because of its remoteness, however, the wilderness could be the refuge of outlaws and fugitives. Hagar flees to the desert in Genesis 16; her son Ishmael lives there as a bowman. David flees to ...

Williams revolutionized theological thinking about African American women by utilizing the stories of Hagar, especially in the wilderness. I first heard the intellectual work that became Sisters in ...

Hagar in the Wilderness has been jointly commissioned and produced by Nova Music Opera and Wales’s Presteigne Festival, and makes the perfect partner for Curlew River. The two operas were ...

The opera is Hagar In The Wilderness: words by Clara Glynn, music by Sally Beamish. It was written as a companion piece for Curlew River, one of Benjamin Britten's church parables. The subject ...