Comments on: Lydia and Tabitha in the Bible https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/ Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jan van Puffelen https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/#comment-14876 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:38:08 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45016#comment-14876 Not to forget the female apostle Junia as mentioned in Rom. 16:7. It is translated correctly as Junia in the King Janes Version, but is translated as the male Junias in the New American Standard Bible!

]]> By: Sikeli cawanikawai https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/#comment-14760 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 01:09:50 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45016#comment-14760 Barbara Thiering’s book by Johnathan is strange. I wonder where they get their facts from.
Paul’s Worship order according to 1Cor 14:34-36,….. women has to be silent in church and be subjected to their husbands. That has changed now where women are priests and they’re preaching in Churches today. My view is that Paul’s Biblical worship order is contextualised today to suit the contemporary living. In Theological terms, God uses the weaker gender to strengthen the Church. 1Cor 1:25 For God’s foolishness is greater than human wisdom and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

]]> By: Helen Spalding https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/#comment-14757 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:04:32 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45016#comment-14757 In reply to ernestc11.

Sadly, the office of priest for the Church is redundant since Jesus Himself is the only priest we need. So no human, male or female, need apply.

The NT does offer images of women in other ministerial roles that became men-only clubs until most recently. Women were deacons and preachers and prophets.

What is killing the Anglican and Episcopal communion in the West is not women in ministry but a lack of being tied to the Gospel of Christ. In the West, this community has chosen to become an NGO rather than a witness to the power of God in the resurrection of Christ Jesus. Women priests are the least of its problems.

]]> By: Helen Spalding https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/#comment-14755 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:54:02 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45016#comment-14755 Sorry, but the witness of the New Testament says that Jesus had ascended long before Lydia appears on scene.

It may make a nice fictional story, a la Hallmark Christmas movies, but it’s hardly authentic Christian witness.

]]> By: ernestc11 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/#comment-14750 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:54:51 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45016#comment-14750 The Church of England also had a place for strong women – until they invented women priests and bishops. Yet another nail in the coffin of the Anglican Church.
E C Coleman

]]> By: Cynthia Gooch https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/#comment-12678 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 16:31:34 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45016#comment-12678 Regarding the women mentioned, such as Eumachia, isn’t it possible that the reason these women were able to do the things they did independently because they were WIDOWS? If their husbands had been alive (were single women allowed to inherit from fathers?), perhaps they would not have been allowed to do what they did?

]]> By: jonathanm71 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/#comment-12151 Mon, 26 Jun 2017 08:38:55 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45016#comment-12151 Barbara Thiering in ‘Jesus of the Apocalypse’ makes a good case for Lydia being the second wife of Jesus. Lydia had reached the position of lay bishop, wearing purple, and could give to other women the same status (‘seller of purple from Thyatira’). She appeared in Philippi in March 50CE. Jesus had been preparing for it in June 49, when he dictated to John the seven letters, one of them to Thyatira, described in Revelations. In the letter to Smyrna, Jesus is said to be their chief bishop, but that he had entered the state preceding marriage, when his deputy Peter should take over. In the letter to Thyatira, Jesus rebukes John Mark for allowing Helena to teach Gentiles and because of this he replaces him as his marriage go-between with his physician Luke. He asks Luke to care for Lydia until ‘I come’ in December. He records that his ‘Father’ had given permission to ‘go outside’ for his marriage and he hands over his first son (by Mary Magdalene) Jesus Justus, aged 12, for education.

]]> By: jsne zm https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lydia-and-tabitha-in-the-bible/#comment-10527 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:03:32 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=45016#comment-10527 Thank you for this article. I shall do further investigation of these listed resources also.

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