Tag: apostle

Any discussion of women’s roles in the church must take into account the apostle Junia. Paul writes in Romans 16.7, “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was” (NIV2011). Though generally accepted as a female apostle throughout church history, Junia has fallen on hard times since the Reformation: her gender has been changed (to the male Junias in the NASB, NIV1984, RSV, UBS4 and NA27) and more recently her apostleship has been questioned. (more…)