The Subtle Difference Between "Pair" and "Couple"?

Sunday, November 8, 2026 - 09:32 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project When we know essentially nothing about the personal lives of people being referenced in intriguing ways, the temptation for historians is always to fill in the details with speculation or assumption. But that's when the world-view of the person doing the speculating and assuming can have an outsized impact on how the facts are interpreted for posterity. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #584 D’Angelo 1990 Women Partners in the New Testament About LHMP Full citation: D’Angelo, Mary Rose. 1990. “Women Partners in the New Testament” in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6/1:65-86. For broader look at funerary memorials commemorating pairs of women, check out my podcast on the topic. This article goes some interesting places, starting with a discussion of a first century Roman funeral monument of two women clasping right hands, then tying it in to early Christian traditions of paired missionaries, with contextual…

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