“The changes in the text may reflect the historical exclusion of women from their earlier leadership roles in Christian communities.”
Okay, not a scholar here. Is there some firm basis for believing that women had “leadership roles,” despite Corinthians 14:34: “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law?”
I don’t remember any talk about women having “leadership roles” until the sixties and after.
>> I don’t remember any talk about women having “leadership roles” until the sixties and after. <<
Well, there were the temple prostitutes, but they were definitely not orthodox Christians.