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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...

women, who brought children to Jesus (Matthew 19:13–14), though we have no evidence of their rebuking men who came (cf John 12:21–22). They reproached the woman who anointed Jesus (Mark 14:5), taking it for granted that her action was senseless. They were astounded when Jesus talked to the Samaritan woman by the well, but this time they did not like to question him about it. Perhaps they had learned enough by now to know that while Jesus did not always respect the conventions of the Rabbis, he did
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