It isn't spelled out and it takes serious linking and the willingness to suspend two thousand years of church history.

I guess that's what stops me every time. I find it hard to accept things that NOW we finally understand, when traditionally they have understood just fine.

> No question that it is only a theory that
> Priscilla wrote Hebrews, but it is by no
> means a casual theory. Ruth Hoppin's book,
> "Priscilla's Letter", contains
> very thorough research and meticulous
> scholarship. The question of authorship may
> never be resolved to everyone's
> satisfaction, but neither can Priscilla be
> easily dismissed as a serious possibility.
> It's also interesting to note that her name
> is mentioned ahead of her husband's 3 out of
> 6 times they appear together (as Priscilla
> and Aquila or Prisca and Aquila). Whether or
> not Aquila was with her when she taught
> Apollos, she did teach him -- with Paul's
> blessing.

> Linda L. Belleville (whom Woodie and I have
> met and had dinner with on several
> occastions) writes about both Phoebe and
> Junia in her essay on Women Leaders in the
> Bible (in "Discovering Biblical
> Equality" - InterVarsity Press, pgs.
> 110-125). About Phoebe, she says that her
> designation as "servant" and
> "helper" in some translations
> (e.g., NKJV, NASU, NIV) causes readers to
> miss the official nature of her official
> commendation by Paul as a church leader
> (deacon or minister) and patron (financial
> supporter of his ministry and travels) -
> Rom. 16:1,2).

> As to whether Junia was really a male named
> Junias (as in English translations done from
> the 1940s to the early 1970s), she says,
> "The masculine name Junias does not
> occur in any inscription, letterhead, piece
> of writing, epitaph or literary work of the
> New Testament period. The feminine Junia,
> however, appears widely and frequently...in
> first century inscriptions from such
> familiar New Testament locales as Ephesus,
> Didyma, Lydia, Troas and Bithynia. 'Junia'
> is found as well on tombstones -- especially
> in and around Rome." (Another speaker I
> heard says that changing Junia to Junias in
> order to claim that this apostle was a male
> is equivalent to changing ElizaBETH to
> ElizaBERT -- the name simply doesn't exist
> in the ancient world).