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Within Reason

#111 Helen Bond - The Forgotten Female Disciples of Jesus

Within Reason

Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Helen Bond is Professor of Christian Origins at the New College, University of Edinburgh, and former head of the School of Divinity there. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2023, she co-authored a book with Joan Taylor called Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples. Watch the documentary version here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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go to amazon.com.uk.U.K.S. Prime. You co-authored a book with Joan Taylor called

0:34.2

Women Remembered, about the early female followers of Jesus of Nazareth. Women remembered as a

0:41.1

project implies women forgotten. So my question is this, to start with. Jesus famously had 12 followers,

0:50.4

and they're named in the Gospels, although it's not always exactly clear if those names were decided upon by the gospel authors,

0:57.0

but one thing that we're pretty sure about is that they were all men.

1:00.0

And throughout the history of Christianity, people have looked at this and thought Jesus chose only male followers,

1:05.0

and that gives us some indication of how we should treat gender relations within the church.

1:10.0

Why were all of Jesus's principal 12 followers men?

1:15.0

I think it depends what the purpose of these 12 people were.

1:20.3

So Jesus, yes, you're right.

1:22.7

There's a clear memory that Jesus had 12 male disciples,

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