14 panels, fits inside most Bible, 8.5 x 5.5 inches unfolds to 38" long
- 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
Women of the Bible: New Testament uses a chart format to review —
- 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
Women of the Bible: New Testament also provides—
- 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
Here is an example from the Women of the Bible New Testament pamphlet:
MARY MAGDALENE
MARY MAGDALENE
- 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
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