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Prisca (Priscilla)

Romans 16:3, 1 Corinthians 16:19, 2 Timothy 4:19

Romans 16:3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my coworkers in Christ Jesus…
1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches of Asia send greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, greet you warmly in the Lord.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

“Priscilla and Aquila” by Lynn H. Cohick
"How Priscilla Paved the Way for Female Leaders" by Rosetta Robinson

Books

Priscilla and Aquila: Paul's Coworkers in Christ Jesus by Marie Noël Keller (2010)
"Romans" by Elizabeth A. Castelli in Searching the Scriptures, Vol. 2: A Feminist Commentary, edited by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (1994)
"Romans" by Beverly Roberts Gaventa in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

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Use proper capitalization (for example, capitalize “N” in “Naomi” instead of writing “naomi”)
Use proper spacing (“Mary of Bethany” as opposed to “MaryofBethany”)
Write out the full name of the woman you’re searching for, if you know it (for example, “The Samaritan Woman”). If writing out the full name does not work, simply type in “Samaritan” and see if “The Samaritan Woman” appears.
If the search bar is still not yielding your results, it might be because we have altered the woman’s name based on scholarship we found (for example, we have Naomi listed as “Naomi/Mara”). You can always find a specific woman by going to the navigation bar, clicking Old Testament or New Testament, and scrolling down to her appropriate genre and book.
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