The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 033 (May 12, 2025)

Bart Ehrman—among many others—holds that in Romans 16:7, St. Paul refers to a woman named Junia and that this woman was an apostle.

Is this true? What is the evidence for the claim? Are there other interpretations? And if there was a woman named Junia who was referred to in the first century as an apostle, what are the implications?

Jimmy Akin is your guide to this complex and controversial issue.

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:17 – Intro
00:52 – 1 Bart Ehrman & the Misquoting Jesus Podcast
01:30 – 2 Setting the Stage
08:29 – 3 Andronicus and Junia?
11:49 – 4 What’s in a Name?
17:24 – 5 Junia the Apostle?
20:11 – 6 Who Is an Apostle?
29:11 – 7 What We Can’t Infer
30:43 – 8 Conclusion
32:10 – Closing/Outro
33:04 – End