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- From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan AT texcel.no>
- To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Romans 16:7
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 16:19:35 -0500
At 04:07 PM 3/28/99, Maggie Hoop wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I'm a graduate student working on a Romans 16:7 : "...Andronicus and
>Junia...prominent among the apostles..."
>
>I'm working from the assumptions that Junia is female and that she is
>called an 'apostle' by Paul.
There has been extensive discussion of this on B-Greek, and you may want to
search the archives for "Junia". The archives may be found attached to
http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/archives.
I think you are right in your assessment above.
>I'm wondering if 'apostle' when applied to a female means the same thing as
>'apostle' when applied to a man.
I would think so - but I'm not sure that I know the whole range of meaning
of the word "Apostle".
>Schussler-Fiorenza and Brooten argue that since a woman is fully capable of
>maintaining the office of apostle as Paul defines it, we should assume that
>Junia did the same work as Andronicus. Other scholars argue that even if
>Paul applied the term 'apostle' to a female, it had a different meaning
>because a female was not highly regarded enough within the early xn
>community to hold the responsibilities of apostleship.
I'm trying to think of examples of titles that mean one thing applied to a
woman and another when applied to a man. I'm coming up empty.
Jonathan
Jonathan Robie
R&D Fellow, Software AG
jonathan.robie AT sagus.com <- this address will be active Monday
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Re: Romans 16:7,
Jonathan Robie, 03/28/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Romans 16:7, John Reece, 03/28/1999
- Re: Romans 16:7, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 03/28/1999
- Re: Romans 16:7, atombomb AT sirius.com, 03/28/1999
- Re: Romans 16:7, Peter Richardson, 03/28/1999
- Re: Romans 16:7, John C. Hurd, 03/28/1999
- Re: Romans 16:7, FucciXXV, 03/28/1999
- Romans 16:7, Maggie Hoop, 01/30/2024
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