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Woman in the Bible: An Overall View of All the Crucial Passages on Women’s Roles is unavailable, but you can change that!

The debate on women’s roles often goes on without a careful look at what the Bible actually says. Mary J. Evans seeks to fill this gap by surveying all the relevant Old and New Testament texts. In her treatment of the Biblical texts, she presents all the major options and deduces a reasonable conclusion, presenting her position clearly but not dogmatically. She also supplies helpful information...

all four gospels tell the same story.’8 That this is so in spite of the fact that the contemporary view was so different9, is quite remarkable and shows something of the significance that the gospel writers attributed to this aspect of the life and character of Jesus. So, from the gospel accounts a portrait of Jesus emerges which is ‘clear and consistent.… His attitude to women was startlingly new, he was able to mix freely and naturally with women of all sorts, and women followed and ministered
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