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S2 Ep1018: #1018 - An Egalitarian View of Women in Ministry in Light of the Greco-Roman Context: Dr. Lynn Cohick

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The New Women and Its Influence on the Pauline Communities

New Testament scholar Bruce Winter says women in first century Rome were like pursuing adulterous affairs and getting away with it. I don't see a place where women were saying, "I've got to break free of all these shackles" The pagan women at this time, I think, were very interested in having ecstatic experiences of a religious sort.

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