Sunday, August 27, 2006

Junia

How does one get a book out of a person who is only mentioned once in scripture? (well once that I know of) It's not to difficult if the name is of a woman and she is called pre-eminent among the apostles. One only has to trace the history of attempts to make the name masculine. For an interesting history of biblical scholarship and eisegesis instead of exegesis read Eldon Jay Epp's book JUNIA: the first woman apostle.

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