ABSTRACT
Sarah's subordinate status would not have given her the option of creating a life, in which we would say, self-realization figured substantially enough for her, to flourish. The reasons for this lie in the constrictions patriarchy placed on her gender. However, we have no way of knowing whether she was discontent within this framework. She would most likely have been an Amorite, though her precise lineage is impossible to trace because the patriarchal system which dominated the society within which Sarah would have lived employed a male-centred form of genealogy. In Sarah's day there was a custom for each tribe to be attributed to the patriarch who had 'originated it'. Sarah should be remembered as person who seems most deficient in a relationship with the divine in God and herself. Abraham plays the part of a witless pawn, though he has the rights which patriarchy grants him for being male and vision which he gains through his relationship with Lord.
