Topic Research: Biblical Love Stories

For this story as a whole, I think it would be cool to write in the format of letters between the different characters. Each segment could have a series of letters sent back and forth between the two characters involved, explaining what is going on and simply providing an update on life. Additionally, I think it would be cool to not only have couples that are romantic, but even characters that love each other because of family ties such as Moses and his mother, for example.

Noah & His Wife

Most people know that Noah is who God called to build an ark when he flooded the entire earth in the book of Genesis in the Bible. What they might now know is that Moses had a wife. Obviously, the feat that Moses embarked on to build this ark for 2 of every animal and his family is no small task. For this story, I would compose a series of letters between Moses and his wife in which Moses tells what is being asked of him and tries to convince his wife of the call and that it's something that they must do together for the good of their family.

The biblical version of events that took place in 

the story of Noah's Ark. Source: Public Domain Pictures

Abraham & Sarah

Basic biblical knowledge reveals that Abraham and Sarah were an older couple without children, although that didn't stop them from wanting a family. Eventually, God gave them the children that they had prayed for so diligently, but that didn't stop them from doubting him and trying to take things into their own hands. This series of letters could be a string of communication between the couple about what they want, their doubt in not having a family, and how they felt when they finally had a child in their old age as a promise of God's favor.

Moses & His Mother

This segment of the work would be an example of a section that is not written out of romantic love but family love. Because of a law passed by Pharaoh at the time of Moses's birth, his mother put him in a basket and in the river, hoping that someone would find him and take care of him. Eventually, Pharaoh's daughter found him and did just that, taking him in as her own son. This series of letters was one that I was thinking could be written from such a point that Moses's mother was pouring out her heart and telling him how sorry she was for what she had had to do by giving him up and serve as a point of reconnecting, which they actually did get to do in the passage of scripture. 

Moses's mother put him in a basket in the river, 

wanting a safer life for her son. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Jacob & Rachel

Growing up, the story of Jacob and Rachel was always one of my favorites. Jacob was so in love with Rachel that he worked 7 years for her father, only to be given the wrong daughter. That didn't even stop him and he worked another 7 years to get to marry the one that he really wanted. This correspondence between the two would be a little bit easier to draft as Jacob and Rachel could potentially write to each other in secret, anxiously waiting the time that Jacob's time to her father is over so that they can be together at last.