In this section are all the nameless women, with the exception of those in the foreground who were included in Section I, “Searching Studies,” namely Lot’s wife, Potiphar’s wife, the daughters of Zelophehad, Jephthah’s daughter, Ichabod’s mother, the woman of Endor, the two mothers of Solomon’s Time, the widow of Zarephath, the Shunammite, the virtuous woman, the woman of Samaria, the Syro-Phoenician woman, who was also called the Canaanite woman, the three sick women, and Pilate’s wife.

In the following section on the nameless women in the background appear more than one hundred sketches. It is impossible to count these women, because often the sketches include a group of them, as in the case of the wise-hearted women who spun fine linen for the tabernacle, or the women of Midian taken captive by the Israelites. We have no record of how many there were. And some of the women in the following section, such as the ten wise and foolish virgins, have a symbolical meaning.

The nameless women have been placed in five divisions: Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Widows, and Other Unnamed Women. The order in which these women appear in each division is chronological.