Women in the Bible

Unnamed Women at the Cross

Matthew 27:55, Mark 15:40-41, Luke 23:49

• Matthew 27:55 Many women were also there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for him.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “Jesus’ Crucifixion in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 23)” by Joel B. Green

• 'It was the women who stayed' by Christine Schenk

• “NT Pod 65: The Women at the Cross” by Mark Goodacre

Books

• “Unnamed Women at the Cross” (p.421) by Mary Rose D’Angelo in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• “Gender Roles in a Scribal Community” by Antoinette Clark Wire in Social History of the Matthean Community: Cross-disciplinary Approaches, edited by David L. Balch (1991)

• “Trial and Crucifixion” in A Woman Reads the Gospel of Luke by Loretta Dornisch (1996)

• “Gospel of Mark” by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon in Women’s Bible Commentary: Revised and Updated, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

• “Fallible Followers: Women and Men in the Gospel of Mark” in In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon (2000)