https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/who-was-phoebe/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:03:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/who-was-phoebe/#comment-2000498488 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:52:00 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=65895#comment-2000498488 Responding to this in particular: “and Lydia was a wealthy, influential merchant and a leader in one of the movement’s many “house churches”—private homes that were used for early Christian worship (Acts 16:11–15, 40).” Assemblies of early Christians in homes were never for acts of “Christian worship,” they were strictly for edification of one another and to have a communal meal.

]]> https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/who-was-phoebe/#comment-2000088674 Tue, 04 May 2021 01:49:58 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=65895#comment-2000088674 Dr. Phyllis Zagano has written quite a bit on Phoebe and other women in the early church.

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