Guide
Women
1st–6th Centuries
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Greek Women in the Synagogue
Acts 17:10–12
That very night the believers sent Paul and Silas off to Beroea; and when they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue. These Jews were more receptive than those in Thessalonica, for they…
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Christian Women and the Synagogue
Discourses against Judaizing Christians 2.3
This is why he [Paul] made you to be head of the wife. This is why Paul gave the order: “If wives wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home,” so that you, like a teacher, a…
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The Talmud on Women in Synagogues
b. Avodah Zarah 38a–b|b. Megillah 23a
This is also taught [in a baraita]: A Jew may place meat on [hot] coals and [let] a gentile come and turn it over [as necessary] until the Jew comes…