Jesus Was a Feminist: What the Gospels Reveal about His Revolutionary Perspective

Based on four decades of research, Jesus Was a Feminist presents the case that Jesus treated women equally with men, breaking custom to involve them in his work. Renowned scholar & liberal Catholic Leonard Swidler examines all gospel texts involving women, asserts that women were involved in the writing of two gospels, & outlines the importance of women in Jesus' ministry & the creation & development of the early church. He shows how Jesus was a feminist & why modern Christians should be too. I Yeshua & women: an overviewPrologue: Women in the ancient worldYeshua, a feminist, androgynous, an integrated humanWomen in Yeshua's languageWomen in Yeshua's teachingWomen in the life of YeshuaII The Gospels critically analyzedThe attitude toward women reflected by the Gospel writers & their sourcesConclusionsIII Early Christians' views of womenSummary analysis of the appendixes of the New Testament outside of the Gospels & early Church writingsAppendix I The New Testament other than the GospelsAppendix II Ambivalent elements in Christian traditionAppendix III Christian tradition's negative elements