Jag har
tidigare bloggat om aposteln Junia (Rom 16:7 [
Bibel 2000][
GNT]) och diskussionen om hon var en hon, eller i stället en manlig apostel vid namn Junias. På
Better Bibles Blog skriver Suzanne McCarthy om boken
Junia, the First Woman Apostle av Eldon Jay Epp.
McCarthy skriver:
However, Eldon Jay Epp, in Junia, the First Woman Apostle, discusses not so much whether Junia could have been Junias, a man; no scholar is attracted to that possiblity at the moment, that I am aware of. No, Epp is fascinated by how it came about that something which is evidently not so, could have been considered so. How on earth did this happen, how did a non-existant name Junias, enter the text and the lexicon (BADG) and why has Junias now been removed without an all-out confession of male bias?! That is what fascinates Epp. Are the men responsible simply going to sweep the male Junias under the carpet? So it seems.