tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860023273901948907.post2160158762530625475..comments2024-03-08T18:04:37.943-08:00Comments on Paul and co-workers: Al Wolters responds on JuniaRichard Fellowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06777460488456330838noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860023273901948907.post-70518657226118738162011-03-06T23:09:47.009-08:002011-03-06T23:09:47.009-08:00Suzanne, thanks for your thoughts. The tradition a...Suzanne, thanks for your thoughts. The tradition about Junia, that you have discussed on your blog is good evidence that the name was female, but I doubt that it is a memory of Junia herself. Traditions about Paul's companions from the second century onwards don't tend to be reliable.<br /><br />Mark, yes 9 of the 26 people greeted by Paul in Rom 16 were women.<br /><br />Mark Goodacre has given a fine podcast on Junia <a href="http://podacre.blogspot.com/2009/09/nt-pod-12-junia-first-woman-apostle.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Readers may also be interested in the evidence that an early scribe demoted Julia (Rom 16:15). See <a href="http://paulandco-workers.blogspot.com/2010/04/sexist-early-scribe-altered-rom-1615.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Richard Fellowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06777460488456330838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860023273901948907.post-10389545433159486972011-03-06T14:24:21.681-08:002011-03-06T14:24:21.681-08:00Thanks for the interesting post, Richard. Some go...Thanks for the interesting post, Richard. Some good points there. On (6), it is worth adding not only that there are many women leaders in Paul's circle but also that Romans 16 in particular has almost as many women mentioned as men -- Phoebe, Priscilla, Mary, Tryphena and Tryphosa, Persis, Rufus's mother, Julia, Nereus's sister.Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860023273901948907.post-32976437505537869102011-02-28T00:32:22.366-08:002011-02-28T00:32:22.366-08:00I am delighted to see Al weigh in on this. I think...I am delighted to see Al weigh in on this. I think his most important contribution is that Junias, written with an acute accent, could have been a first declension male name. But, as he says, probability suggests that the name is female. Clearly, there is an unbroken tradition that she was female. Even those who added accents to the manuscript had been exposed only to the notion that Junia was female.<br /><br />There is no reason to suggest that those who had only heard of her as a woman, in an unbroken line, would suddenly think that Junia/s was a male first declension name derived from Hebrew. One can not connect the acute accent with any evidence that Byzantine scribes thought that Junia/s was male.Suzanne McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2860023273901948907.post-75548431116938542932011-02-28T00:28:05.992-08:002011-02-28T00:28:05.992-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Suzanne McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.com