Women of the Bible: New Testament is a concise chart that profiles women whose lives were touched by Jesus, or who served the early Church. Teachers and students alike will enjoy discovering more about the women whose lives were forever changed by Jesus. These women showed great faith and human faults; they were forgiven women, friends, disciples, and leaders in the Church.
Women of the Bible: New Testament features the following women:
- Mary, Mother of Jesus
- Elizabeth
- Mary Magdalene
- Mary and Martha
- Five anonymous women that Jesus encountered -
- The woman with a flow of blood
- The bent-over woman
- The forgiven woman
- The Canaanite woman
- The Samaritan woman
- Four women of the Apostolic Church
- Lydia
- Priscilla
- Phoebe
- Dorcas
- Bible references for each woman's story
- Date and location of the story
- Key events in each woman's life
- An overview of each woman's story
- Insights from the story
- Cultural insights about the Samaritans and the Canaanites that made Jesus'encounters with the women from these places all the more powerful.
- A brief summary on the Gnostic Gospels, including the Gospel of Mary
- A definition of Gnosticism
- Information to correct the popular idea that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married
- Bible references Luke 8:1-3; Mark 15:40-47; John 19:25; 20:1-18
- Date and location of the story Galilee, AD 26-30
- Key events:
- Belonged to the larger group of Jesus' disciples
- Healed of possession by seven demons
- Present at the time of Jesus' death
- First to talk to the Lord after the resurrection
- First disciple commissioned to tell about Jesus' resurrection
Author: Benjamin Galan, MTS, ThM, PhD Candidate, Adjunct Professor of Old Testament Hebrew and Literature at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA