Excellent piece, you've gathered the implications into a nutshell. It's a forerunner of the gyneolatry invented in the Middle Ages, but in this case met with an unequivocal rejection of the woman's prioritising of females over men and truth.
The last line made me smile: "I wonder what the woman quoted by Luke felt about Jesus’ rejection of her idolatry. We’ll never know for sure, but one thing is certain. We don’t hear from her again."
Excellent piece, you've gathered the implications into a nutshell. It's a forerunner of the gyneolatry invented in the Middle Ages, but in this case met with an unequivocal rejection of the woman's prioritising of females over men and truth.
The last line made me smile: "I wonder what the woman quoted by Luke felt about Jesus’ rejection of her idolatry. We’ll never know for sure, but one thing is certain. We don’t hear from her again."
Pretty sure I dated her once.
Yeah, we've been hearing from that moo ever since.