The Hijrian year 290, for example, corresponding to the year 902 of our Christian Era, evokes two feminine names of considerable eschatological importance in Islam, Maryam (mother of Jesus: M + R + Y + M = 290) and FATIR, the initiation name of Fâtima, daughter of the Prophet, ancestress of the Fatimites (F + A + T + R = 290). (religion-online.org)
Among those gathered here in her modem voice (through scriptural images, verbal echoes, parallel situations) are women whose stories have been muffled in the Bible's tradition — Hagar, Bilhah, Zilpah, Mary, the Lord's «handmaiden,» Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rebekkah, Ruth, Puah and Shiphrah (the Hebrew midwives in Egypt), Jael, Jephthah's daughter, the «Jezebel» of Revelation, and other, unnamed ancestresses, «missing persons without textual authority. (religion-online.org)
He died of blood poisoning after a leg amputation (during which he insisted on holding the candle himself, providing light for the surgeons), but not before he had himself produced an heir» his only one» Cosimo de» Medici, who went on to become the grand duke of Tuscany, making Caterina the direct ancestress «of a line that would become synonymous with the great city of Florence. (firstthings.com)