Biblical Views: Priscilla—An Extraordinary Early Christian Life

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More than 40 years ago, my wife and I moved to Durham, England, for me to do my doctoral thesis on women in the New Testament. Usually doctoral theses get someone a degree and then are quickly buried in some back room of a library. In my case, the opposite happened, and it led to three books on women in the New Testament for Cambridge University Press, one of which became their best-selling scholarly New Testament monograph ever.1 A significant portion of those books was devoted to Paul’s female coworkers—Phoebe, Junia, Mary, and others, but clearly the most frequently […]

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Endnotes

1.
See Ben Witherington III, Women in the Earliest Churches (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988); and the more general study, Ben Witherington III and Ann Witherington, Women and the Genesis of Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990).

2. See Ben Witherington III, “The Anti-Feminist Tendencies of the Western Text of Acts,” Journal of Biblical Literature 103 (1984), pp. 82–84.

3.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2019.