The second ancestral mother in his list is Rahab. Her story is told in the book of Joshua (chapters 2 and 6). In that narrative Rahab is a prostitute who runs a brothel located inside the walls of the city of Jericho. She entertains and protects Joshua’s spies and presumably later marries one of them. It is through the prostitution of Rahab that the line that produced Jesus flowed. Tamar was guilty of incest, Rahab of prostitution. Is a pattern developing?
