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To: onedoug
And your point is? That is quite different from the subject matter of this thread. The other Mary was also there:

Matthew 27:61
96 posted on 07/06/2002 8:54:18 AM PDT by poet
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To: poet
My point is that if God was not working in how the Resurrection was transmitted, then that would seem to undermine its meaning, since the idea of returning from death was not new in either Hellinism or Judaism. This way in which the Resurrection is told however, does seem new given the ways in which women were denied leadership roles in virtually all societies of the period, including Judeo-Roman. Rather whereas, here is a woman now conveying the greatest news ever to be told to the men who had abandoned Christ, and who will not believe her now, even on that basis.

Not so much that I am arguing for women's apostleship, or their current admittance to any contemporary priesthood, yet that I do sense something profound in the way in which the divinely inspired Word carries the sense of the Resurrection forth. And which, as in commenting to your post, is not a rewrite - feminist or otherwise - of history, but at least according to the Gospels, the way it IS.

100 posted on 07/06/2002 10:28:49 AM PDT by onedoug
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