The following was published in Themelios, 26:3, Summer 2001. Are there essential differences between the sexes? Elaine Storkey is regarded by many as the leading British evangelical spokesperson on gender issues. Her latest book directly addresses the vital question ‘created or constructed? This review article summarises each chapter, and then offers a critique. Storkey, Elaine,...

  When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity, by Karen Jo Torjesen. New York: Harper San Francisco, 1993. 271 pp.

  Excerpted With Permission From "A Foreign World: Ephesus In The First Century," By S. M. Baugh, In Women In The Church: A Fresh Analysis Of 1 Timothy 2:9-15, Edited By A. J. Köstenberger, T. R. Schreiner, And H. S. Baldwin (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995), 47-48

Wendy Cotter, "Women's Authority Roles in Paul's Churches: Countercultural or Conventional?" Novum Testamentum 36 (1994): 350-72