Excerpt from Mothers Around the Manager
by J. Timothy Allen

Others have pondered Rahab's story, and their conclusions may be informative. Despite her past and her dubious character, later rabbinic tradition was quite enamored of Rahab. It describes her as one of the four most beautiful women in the world (my source did not tell me who the other three were). The ancient Jewish rabbis also wrote that Rahab was an ancestress of Huldah the prophetess, who advised the royal court during the time of King Josiah (2 Kings 22:14-20). She was also considered an ancestress of Jeremiah, the weeping prophet who prophesied after Josiah's reign. Some even tried to link her in a similar way to Ezekiel whose ministry coincided with Jeremiah. But her fame does not stop here.

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