Women Who Do: Female Disciples in the Gospels Carey Holly J.
Women Who Do: Female Disciples in the Gospels Carey Holly J. Meet the women who followed Jesus even when the Twelve failed. And that requires action. To be a disciple is to follow Jesus. The Twelve…
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Women Who Do: Female Disciples in the Gospels Carey Holly J.
Meet the women who followed Jesus even when the Twelve failed. And that requires action. To be a disciple is to follow Jesus.
The Twelve even abandon Jesus at his crucifixion in many of the narratives. But in the gospels, the disciples often falter. Yet it is female disciples who remain faithful to Jesus to the end.
What do we make of this?In Women Who Do, Holly J. Carey examines what it means to be a disciple--and contends that it's the women who best embody discipleship in the gospels. Carey describes the expectations and social roles for women in first-century Greco-Roman and Jewish contexts.
Then she offers a close reading of each of the four gospels, as well as Acts of the Apostles. What emerges is a cohesive narrative-critical case that the Twelve are not an equivalent group to the disciples. In fact, the Twelve are set as foils
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