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HELEN BOND AND JOAN TAYLOR
Helen Bond (right) and Joan Taylor are professors of Christian origins and ancient history. Their book Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples came about after they made the documentary Jesus’ Female Disciples: The New Evidence in 2018, which took them across Israel and Jordan studying lost women from Jesus’ real history.
The story of Jesus in popular understanding is a predominantly male affair. Between his birth and death, only two women, both named Mary, really take up any space in most retellings. However, as Joan Taylor and Helen Bond explore in their new book, Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples, there is plenty of evidence that women were not only involved in Jesus’ movement, but were integral to it.
We sat down with Taylor and Bond to discuss their book, the role of women in the Bible and the wider role of women in early Christianity.
What sort of roles did women hold in the early days
