8. Scholars believe
originally this name
was “THEDORA”—
a woman’s name.
Later, lighter-colored
gold tesserae covered
up the “RA.”
This made the female
bishop’s name
masculine.
10. Art as Text
By Ally Kateusz
In honor of Karen Jo Torjesen
Notes de l'éditeur
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For academics who believe this, see Karen Jo Torjesen, When Women Were Priests (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), 9-10, and Joan Morris, The Lady was a Bishop (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 4-6.
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