Reimagining of the story of Hagar invites us to reckon with the important ways she is first in the Genesis narrative. As a slave, she is the first woman to experience oppression, abuse and rejection in the Bible. Hagar is the first person to receive a visit from a divine messenger and the only woman to receive a direct promise of many descendants. She is the only person to give God a name. Finally, she is the first female in scripture to liberate herself from oppressive power structures when she flees to the wilderness and the first freed slave. How we understand her story sets the trajectory for seeing every woman in the Bible. Her story matters.

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