Cressida Connolly

Jesus’s female disciples remain women of mystery

If the Marys and Salomes are hard to distinguish, the word ‘diakonos’ and the vagaries of the Greek masculine plural are equally problematic

‘Jesus in the house of Martha and Mary’ by Henryk Siemiradzki. [Alamy]
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  • Women Remembered: Jesus’s Female Disciples

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