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Scholarly consensus and popular summaries agree there is that an entire canonical book of the Bible was authored by a woman, but several passages and traditions preserve material attributed to women (...
The short answer: no, "included" as compilers of the canonical Bible — the surviving evidence and mainstream scholarship in the provided reporting shows the texts were largely written and edited withi...
The Bible contains passages that many traditions read as limiting eldership and pastoral authority to men—most centrally 1 Timothy 2:12 and the male-focused qualifications in 1 Timothy 3—while other t...
— , , (and /) — has been alive since the and has only intensified in modern denominational disputes, with these figures as precedents for full female ministry or as exceptional, non‑normative instance...