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This book focuses on an often neglected topic: women and their important role as deaconesses, examples of godliness, and co-laborers for the gospel. Essays on women in Earliest Christianity contains a variety of perspectives from many authors who have laid out the biblical and historical examples of feminine Christian worship.

their apostolic colleagues and quite another to appeal to the opinions of “the apostles” to bolster the Roman Christians’ opinions of Andronicus and Junia. This type of recommendation seems less than probable, given the view Paul communicated in Gal. 2:6–9. Although there is agreement that Paul intended to say that these two were “outstanding among the group called ‘apostles’,” debate persists over what Paul intended by the term. Fiorenza65 notes, “Non-specialists may feel certain who the apostles
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