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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...

To turn from a consideration of the place of women in Judaism and in the Roman Empire of New Testament times to look at the attitude and behaviour of Jesus as presented in the gospels, is to be immediately aware of a startling contrast. Jesus’ approach to women is ‘without precedent in contemporary Judaism’.1 Jeremias, in considering the impact of the Kingdom of God in the life of the believer says of the place of women, ‘Nowhere in the social sphere does
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