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The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for Church Leadership is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, Dorothy Lee considers evidence from the New Testament and early church to show that women’s ministry is confirmed by the biblical witness. Her comprehensive examination explores the roles women play in the Gospels and the Pauline corpus, with a particular focus on passages that have been used in the past to limit women’s ministry. Lee argues that women in the New Testament are not...

line running through Matthew’s Gospel in Jesus’s ministry,44 a line focused on those on the margins and on shaping an inclusive community that welcomes them.45 Another matriarch who features in Matthew’s story is Rachel, wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin (Gen. 29–35; Matt. 2:17–18). This reference forms part of the five Old Testament quotations throughout Matthew’s birth narrative, tying the story of Jesus to the story of Israel. This particular quotation goes back to the exile and
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