Women in Early Christianity

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" The question of the role of women in the foundation, formation, and promulgation of the Christian faith and church in the first and second centuries of the Common Era is, to say the least, highly elusive, if not utterly speculative. The distance created by time, alone, added to the absence of the original documents from which the canon of the New Testament has derived, makes it virtually impossible to know with abject certainty what was spoken and written in the earliest days and decades following the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Despite the fundamental Christian belief that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible Word of God, sufficient evidence exists to demonstrate that, in some instances, some translators or copyists of the original documents which comprise the Gospels, the Pauline corpus, and the other Pastoral epistles have left out.."

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