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Lydia

Acts 16:14

  • Acts 16:14 A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

  • “Faithful Female Financiers: A Womanist Way of Leading Change Through Financial Means” by Debora Jackson (2021)

  • “The Biblical Lydia: Influential Business Woman and Evangelist” blog post on NIV (2021)

  • “Lydia and the Jailer” podcast episode on The Bible Binge (June 6, 2021)

  • “Gender Legacies: Black Women in the Early Church–and Ethno-Historical Reconstruction” by Rosalyn Murphy in Black Theology: An International Journal (2009)

  • "Lydia" by Kennedy Thedford and Tina Pippin

  • "Hospitality in the New Testament" by Carolyn Osiek

  • "Women Leaders in the Philippian Church?" by Nijay K. Gupta

  • "Famous Philippians" by F. Scott Spencer

Books

  • “Lydia and Her House” in Women in the Acts of the Apostles: A Feminist Liberation Perspective by Ivoni Richter Reimer (1995)

  • Ch 10, “Lydia: Women and Men in Gospel Partnership” (pp.163-176) by Natalia Kohn from Hermanas: Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence

  • Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity by Luise Schottroff (1995)

  • "Acts of the Apostles" by Margaret Aymer in Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

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  • To find a woman manually, note that the women listed on this site are listed in the order they appear in scripture (for example, women in Genesis chapter 1 are listed before women in Genesis chapter 2).

This project has been created by Founder and Executive Director Debbie McLeod alongside a team of Yale-educated researchers: Anna Grace Glaize, McKenzie Brummond, Moriah Asch, Brian Peterson, Laura Traverse, Phoebe Oler, and Sarah Ambrose

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