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Book Review: NLT Every Woman's Bible
By: Angela Conley | May 20, 2025
Brooten challenges historians of religion to question the prevailing view of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period as a religion that excluded women from leadership roles and even from attendance at synagogue services.
Book Review: Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | May 17, 2025
Brooten challenges historians of religion to question the prevailing view of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period as a religion that excluded women from leadership roles and even from attendance at synagogue services.
A Vision of Persistence
By: Dawn Gentry | May 15, 2025
You can't be what you can't see—this week's blog discusses the importance of women having a "great cloud of witnesses" as they pursue God's calling.
Breaking the Silence on Women Leaders in the Early Church—A Review of Excavating Women: The Archaeology of Leaders in Early Christianity.
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | May 6, 2025
Excavating Women sheds new light on the roles of women leaders in early Christianity through groundbreaking archaeological discoveries and analysis.
Editor's Reflection: Spring 2025
By: Havilah Dharamraj | May 1, 2025
This issue of Priscilla Papers highlights the courageous stories of women who boldly pursued extraordinary callings. Their work, often considered radical or unconventional, invites us to reflect more deeply on the transformative role of women in advancing God's Kingdom.
The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas
By: Michaela Rollins | May 1, 2025
Michaela Rollins introduces us to the “prison diary” of Perpetua and Felicitas, who, in the early third century, fearlessly embraced the calling to be martyrs for their new faith in Jesus.
The Extraordinary History of the Extraordinary Call
By: Joan Brown | May 1, 2025
Joan Brown traces the chronology of the “extraordinary call,” the condition under which women could be permitted to preach in exception to what was understood as the Pauline rule that women “ought not to teach” (1 Tim 2:12).
Women’s Work: Vocation in Exodus 2:1–10
By: Jennifer M. Gash | May 1, 2025
Jenn Gash studies how the group of women who played a saving role in the infancy narrative of Moses ended up subverting the rule of Pharaoh.
Re-Oranting the Church: Metaphor and the Erasure of Image-Bearing
By: Daniel Schwabauer | May 1, 2025
Daniel Schwabauer reads the injunction that women cover their heads (1 Cor 11:3-5) in the light of the orant, the males and females in the early centuries of the Church who stood before a congregation to offer up prayer.
Annie Royale Taylor (1855–1922): A Missionary Adventurer in Tibet
By: Ian Randall | May 1, 2025
Ian Randall tells the story of Annie Royale Taylor (1855-1922), a missionary adventurer who dared the icy perils of Tibet.