Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
II Kings, II Chronicles [77] [78] Jedidah – Wife of wicked king Manessah and mother of Josiah. II Kings [79] Jehoaddan (or Jehoaddin) – II Kings, II Chronicles [80] [81] Jehosheba (or Jehoshebeath/Josaba) – Daughter of Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada. She saved her nephew Jehoash from massacre. II Kings [82] Jemima – One of Job's daughters ...
[71]: 131 The women named as leaders in the Pauline epistles contributed directly to that endeavor by acting in roles like those of men. [98] [99] [100] New Testament scholar Linda Belleville says "virtually every leadership role that names a man also names a woman. In fact there are more women named as leaders in the New Testament than men.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church's Women's Ministries department released The Woman's Bible, which was the first study Bible specifically designed for women by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and which was a New King James Version of the Bible that offered more than 100 commentaries, study materials, and profiles on female biblical characters ...
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
A group of female theologians have written a religious text they're calling "A woman's Bible." Here's why they did it.
Early interpretations, including patristic sources, predominantly affirm her identity as a female figure recognized in apostolic circles. [8] [9] Additionally, Junia was a female, and an apostle according to scholarly consensus among different academic fields. [10] Phoebe (Deaconess & Saint) fl. 56–58 CE: Cenchreae