Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | Autumn 2021
An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal exploring Bible interpretation, theology, church history, and other disciplines as they address a biblical view of women’s equality and justice in the home, church, and world.
"Priscilla and Aquila instructed Apollos more perfectly in the way of the Lord." (Acts 18:26)
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Autumn 2021
Volume: 35 | Number: 4
Diversity
This issue of Priscilla Papers is particularly diverse. Its authors are from all around the world, represent various denominations and professions, and write on a wide range of topics.
Contents

By: Jeff Miller | October 31, 2021
This issue is particularly diverse. Its authors are from all around the world, represent various denominations and professions, and write on a wide range of topics.

By: Médine Moussounga Keener | October 31, 2021
Emilienne Loubota was an uncommon hero and a foremother to the women pastors in the Evangelical Church of Congo.

By: Anna Beresford | October 31, 2021
In his response to a question posed by the Sadducees, Jesus said that those in the resurrection "neither marry nor are given in marriage." The reason women will not be "given in marriage" is that, in the resurrection, they will not be viewed as property.

A Religion of “Women and Children”? A Christian Woman’s Place in the Greco-Roman World Before AD 300
By: William B. Bowes | October 31, 2021
Amid the patriarchy of the ancient world, early Christianity had a particularly liberating and redemptive place for women, one significant enough to be mentioned by Christianity’s first major critic, the second-century philosopher Celsus.

By: Spencer Miles Boersma | October 31, 2021
Psalm 137 models for us prayer that can lead away from vengeance and toward forgiveness.

By: John Wijngaards | October 31, 2021
Genesis teaches that men and women share the divine image equally and are therefore fully equal as human beings.

By: Jeff Miller | October 31, 2021
Dorothy Lee’s work on ministering women displays exemplary research and is especially well written.