What do the following have in common?
- Reaching out in a crowd to touch a rabbi’s robe, even though it will make him ceremonially unclean.
- Waltzing into a house full of hostile religious leaders who all know about your immoral past.
- Sacrificing a year’s worth of wages to a man who didn’t ask for it.
- Speaking up first to a Jewish man who knows you only as an assertive Gentile woman.
Risk is what these actions share. For women in first century Palestine, these actions were each inherently risky. (Read More)
