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The Women's Bible Commentary - No Male and Female?
The Women's Bible Commentary - No Male and Female?
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
No Male and Female? To illustrate the diversity of the body of Christ, Paul asserts that “in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit” (12:13). Behind this verse is a baptismal formula, reproduced…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Preface to the History
The Women's Bible Commentary - Preface to the History
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Preface to the History Following the opening letters asking the Egyptian Jews to commemorate the purification of the temple, the author opens his preface with a lengthy sentence displaying his facility with the Greek language…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women as the Strongest
The Women's Bible Commentary - Women as the Strongest
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Women as the Strongest The story of the contest has been expanded by the addition of the fourth section about truth (4:33–41). In its original form, the argument about women (4:13–32) would have been the climax and conclusion of the contest about “what one thing is strongest” (3:…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - New Covenant