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Joanna – One of the women who went to prepare Jesus' body for burial. Luke [90] Jochebed – Mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Exodus, Numbers [91] [92] Judith – Hittite wife of Esau. Genesis [93] Judith, the heroine of the deuterocanonical Book of Judith [94] Julia – Minor character in the new testament Romans [95]
[it remains true that] women or women's names represent between 5.5 and 8 percent of the total [names in the Bible], a stunning reflection of the androcentric character of the Bible." [ 29 ] : 34 A study of women whose spoken words are recorded found 93, of which 49 women are named.
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.
Between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Bible has a plethora of captivating chronicles. You may remember the dramatic tale of Moses parting the Red Sea, or of Samson's prodigious ...
Priscilla illustration from the Women of the Bible, Harold Copping. Priscilla was a woman of Jewish heritage and one of the earliest known Christian converts who lived in Rome. Her name is a Roman diminutive for Prisca which was her formal name. She is often thought to have been the first example of a female preacher or teacher in early church ...
According to certain studies, the public life of women in the time of Jesus was far more restricted than in Old Testament times. [1]: p.52 At the time the apostles were writing their letters concerning the Household Codes (Haustafeln), Roman law vested enormous power (Patria Potestas, lit. "the rule of the fathers") in the husband over his "family" (pater familias) which included his wife ...
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Lockyer, Herbert, All the women of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28151-2; Lockyer, Herbert, All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28041-9; Tischler, Nancy M., All Things in the Bible: An Encyclopedia of the Biblical World, Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Conn. : 2006 ISBN 0-313 ...