Ep 58 Jesus's Women Disciples - Professors Helen Bond and Joan Taylor

The Sunday Long Read gives way this week to a Sunday Long Watch and Long Listen.

Last week I had the privilege of interviewing two Jesus and 1^st Century historians – Professors Joan Taylor, currently in Wellington, and Prof. Helen Bond at the University of Edinburgh, who jointly authored and presented the BBC Channel 4 documentary Jesus’ Female Disciples and the book Women Remembered about Jesus’ Female Disciples.

Because the history of Christianity was written by men, the two scholars argue, the importance and contribution of the women to the spread of the Jesus message has been largely overlooked - women who preached, healed, baptised and even bankrolled the movement.

You can find their documentary JESUS’ FEMALE DISCIPLES here:

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