Women Remembered: Jesus'' Female Disciples

About Helen BondJoan Taylor

Helen Bond (Author) Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the social and political history of Judaea under Roman rule the historical Jesus and the canonical gospels. She is the author of Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation (CUP 1998) Caiaphas: High Priest and Friend of Rome? (Westminster John Knox 2004) The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury 2012) Jesus: A Very Brief History (SPCK 2017) The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel (Eerdmans 2020) and a number of shorter studies and articles. She has contributed to over 50 TV and radio documentaries including acting as historical consultant to The Nativity (BBC 2010) and co-presenter (with Joan Taylor) on Jesus' Female Disciples (Channel 4 2018).Joan Taylor (Author) Joan Taylor is Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College London. She has authored numerous books and articles about Jesus and his world notably The Immerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism (1997) Jesus and Brian: Studying the Historical Jesus via Monty Python's Life of Brian (2015) and What did Jesus look like? (2018). She has studied questions of women and gender: Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria: Philo's Therapeutae Reconsidered (2006); with Ilaria Ramelli Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity (2021). She is currently writing a Very Short Introduction to Mary Magdalene for the Oxford series. She also works in radio television and film and co-presented with Helen Bond Jesus' Female Disciples: The New Evidence (2018) for Channel Four.