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Part II — Joshua to Revelation (1898)
The Book of Acts
The early church's working women: Sapphira, punished as an equal where scripture rarely treats woman as one; Dorcas, the seamstress whose charity earned resurrection; and Priscilla, who taught the eloquent Apollos his theology — evidence, the committee argues, that women preached and led before doctrine shut the door.
Sapphira's equal punishmentDorcas (Tabitha) raised for her good worksPriscilla the teacherWomen in the first churches