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The Woman Caught in Adultery: Where Was the Man?
The law they cite requires both parties, and they brought one. What the accusers were actually doing, and why the manuscript question does not settle it.
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The Syrophoenician Woman and the Hardest Line
He calls her people dogs, and softening it does not help. Bailey reads the exchange as an exam given to a woman he expected to pass, with an audience in mind.
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The Woman at the Well and the Man With No Bucket
He sits on the wellhead with no means of drawing water and opens by asking her for help. The longest conversation in the Gospels starts from a position of need.
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Jesus and Women: What Had Changed by His Day
Ruth, Esther, Deborah and Judith were heroines in the older literature. By the first century the position had moved, and the movement is well documented.