Posted on 01/03/2026 1:01:23 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Just in case you thought Hollywood was running out of stories to adapt for TV and movies, Fox is going back further than you might expect. The upcoming series, The Faithful, aims to adapt multiple stories from the Bible that focus on women for a limited series in 2026. The Faithful release date comes in time for Easter 2026, with Minnie Driver in one of the starring roles.
The Faithful is a three-part limited series based on five Old Testament women – Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel. Their stories are intertwined and, more importantly, they are some of the most prominent female figures in the Old Testament of the Bible. The Faithful release date is March 22, 2026 at 8 pm ET.
The three-part series will air a new episode each Sunday until April 5, 2026. That means that the final episode of The Faithful will air on Fox on Easter Sunday, while each episode will air on Hulu the day after. While there aren’t many episodes in The Faithful, each one is expected to be two hours long, which still makes it a sizable chunk of television. That schedule means that The Faithful will air on Fox throughout the Passover and Easter seasons.
Those who tune into The Faithful will see stories from Genesis that focus on “discovering and losing love, the challenges of marriage, the joys and heartbreak of children, confronting temptation, and finding faith,” according to the official logline from Fox.
The Faithful release date is March 22, 2026, with the series finale airing on April 5, 2026, which also happens to be Easter Day.
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I hope they lead off with the tent peg lady.
I guess Gomer will be season 2.
According to the Book of Genesis, Hagar[a] is an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai),[2] whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, generally taken to be the Arabs. Various commentators have connected her to the Hagrites (sons of Agar), perhaps claiming her as their eponymous ancestor.[3][4][5][6] Hagar is alluded to, although not named, in the Quran, and Islam considers her Abraham's second wife.
Gomer, a Harlot was a big pyle of trouble!
My Catholic study Bible uses Hagar as an example of God's love toward gentiles, and that salvation was always intended to include gentiles.
Some other early saved gentiles of the Bible include Noah, Job, Rahab, Ruth, the Wise Men from the East (the first gentiles to recognize Jesus as the Messiah), the Roman centurion, the Canaanite woman, the Samaritan women by the well, etc.
What I was thinking ...Jael...Judges 5
What about Rahab the harlot? Though a common whore, and somewhat of a liar, she believed in God.
Shazzam!
Mary Magdalene, the woman at Jacobs well, Pilates wife, Elizabeth, Martha, the widow and Elijah, the woman with a two mite offering, the woman with the bleeding problem....
LOL!
I’m doing a daily thread on “personalities” in the Bible. It might take a while to get to Gomer, as I just started and am working on Eve right now.
Some disabiguation here: Noah, being an ancestor of Abraham, was not a Gentile. That term does not apply to the ancestors of the Jews.
Job, may have been a Gentile, but no genealogy is given. He is portrayed as an 'everyman' living in the time of Joseph, or possibly Abraham.
Then there's this tidbit from Genesis 46:
12 The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 The sons of Issachar were Tola, [a]Puvah, [b]Job, and Shimron. 14 The sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
Chapter Footnotes
[a] Genesis 46:13 Puah, Num. 26:23; 1 Chr. 7:1
[b] Genesis 46:13 Jashub, Num. 26:24; 1 Chr. 7:1
There's a possibility this 'Job' or Jashub may be the Job of the book. But we don't know.
“Bad Girls of the Bible” by Liz Curtis Higgs.
It looks like there was also
“Really Bad Girls of the Bible” and
“Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible.”
There are so many “personalities”...you might meet them before you finish all of them!
Well, I’m pretty OLD, so you may be right.
She brought him curds in a lordly bowl...
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