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Jesus Was a Feminist: What the Gospels Reveal about His Revolutionary Perspective

Based on four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, breaking custom to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar & liberal Catholic Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two gospels, & outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry & the creation & development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist & why modern Christians should be too.

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I Yeshua & women: an overview

Prologue: Women in the ancient world

Yeshua, a feminist, androgynous, an integrated human

Women in Yeshua's language

Women in Yeshua's teaching

Women in the life of Yeshua

II The Gospels critically analyzed

The attitude toward women reflected by the Gospel writers & their sources

Conclusions

III Early Christians' views of women

Summary analysis of the appendixes of the New Testament outside of the Gospels & early Church writings

Appendix I The New Testament other than the Gospels

Appendix II Ambivalent elements in Christian tradition

Appendix III Christian tradition's negative elements

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 287 pages

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