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The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) was one of the first major translations to adopt gender-neutral language. [1] The King James Version translated at least one passage using a technique that many now reject in other translations, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God" (Matt. 5:9).
Junia or Junias (Biblical Greek: Ἰουνία / Ἰουνίας, Iounia / Iounias) was a Christian in the first century known from Paul the Apostle's letter to the Romans.. There has been dispute surrounding both Junia's gender and apostolic status, although she has been viewed as female through most of Christian history as well as by the majority of scholars.
There are some churches (see below) who teach that the Holy Spirit is feminine based on the fact that both feminine nouns and verbs, as well as feminine analogies, are thought to be used by the Bible to describe the Spirit of God in passages such as Genesis 1:1-2, Genesis 2:7, Deut. 32:11-12, Proverbs 1:20, Matthew 11:19, Luke 3:22, and John 3:5-6.
The consistent use of feminine nouns and verbs to refer to the Spirit of God in the Torah, as well as the rest of the Jewish Scriptures, indicates that at least this aspect of Elohim was consistently perceived as feminine. [4] Genesis 1:26–27 says that humans were made male and female in the image of elohim. [5] [6]
Mentioned one verse later is Makir's wife, also named Maacah. [106] "I Chronicles" [107] Mahalath – daughter of Ishmael and 3rd wife of Esau. Genesis [108] Mahalath – granddaughter of David and the first wife of King Rehoboam. II Chronicles [4] Mahlah – one of the daughters of Zelophehad Numbers, Joshua [71] [109] Mahlah – I Chronicles [60]
Bible translator Hayk Hovhannisyan says Junia was a woman and there is consensus supporting this view. [132]: 297 [133]: 241, 242 He says that "Some scholars argue that Junia was really a man by the name of Junias... Whether this name is masculine or feminine depends on how the word was accented in Greek. ...scribes wrote Junia as feminine.
[6] There are references to a "Euodia" (again mistaking the name as a male form) in the document Apostolic Constitutions , which purports to be a set of writings of the twelve Apostles of Jesus, but is in fact a spurious source, dated to the fourth century AD, and believed to originate in Syria .
While shekhinah is a feminine word in Hebrew, it primarily seemed to be featured in masculine or androgynous contexts referring to a divine manifestation of the presence of God, based especially on readings of the Talmud. [15] [16] [17] Contemporary interpretations of the term shekhinah commonly see it as the divine feminine principle in ...