Thread: For my Women and the Bible class, I assign a group project where students edit/create a Wikipedia page in order to add info on female biblical characters & women biblical scholars. This morning I stumbled upon wiki sections/pages that illustrate the need for this work. /1
On the “Paul the Apostle and Women” wiki page, Junia is discussed and almost every scholar mentioned or footnoted is male and no publication listed is older than 2006. @brooten published on Junia in 1977. 1977! Yet she is not mentioned here or on Junia’s Wikipedia page. /2
This is further evidence of the Brooten Phenomenon, coined by @DrSaraParks, which illustrates the politics of citation and the ways in which scholarship by and about women remain in the margins of scholarship. /3
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