In this episode of The Bridge, Katie sits down with Rev. Professor Jacqueline Grey, Professor of Biblical Studies at Alphacrucis and Director of the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Centre. They explore her forthcoming book She Speaks for God on women prophets in the Old and New Testaments.

You’ll hear about: Miriam, Deborah and Huldah, and how they led and spoke with the same authority as male prophets Isaiah’s wife, “the prophetess” of Isaiah 8, and why some scholars dismiss her Mary and Anna in Luke 2, and why Mary prophesies without being called a prophet Noadiah in Nehemiah 6:14, usually labelled a “false prophetess”, and what the text actually says The Southern Baptist Convention decision on women in ministry, and how to respond as an everyday believer 1 Timothy 2 in its Ephesian context, the Artemis cult, and Paul’s greetings to Priscilla and the women of Romans 16 Hermeneutics made simple: Prof. Grey’s three questions of them, us and me, and reading the Old Testament like a traveller in a foreign culture

Resources mentioned
Jacqueline Grey, She Speaks for God (2027)
Jacqueline Grey, Them, Us and Me and Three’s a Crowd
Nijay Gupta, Tell Her Story Discovering Biblical Equality (ed. Ronald Pierce and others)
Sandra Glahn’s work on the Artemis cult, and
1 Timothy Cartledge Lectures, Alphacrucis, Parramatta (29 July 2027, Prof. Wolfgang Vondey)