Lady Eclecte

The Lost Woman of the New Testament

By: Lincoln H. Blumell

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Hardcover | 11 November 2025

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While scholars have long noted that the opening address of the letter is ambiguous, in some cases even problematic, the received reading that is printed in all Greek editions of the New Testament for the last 150 years is ÎµÌ"ÎºÎ»ÎµÎºÏÎ·II ÎºÏÏÎ¹ÌÎ±I and is typically translated as "to an elect lady." The nearly universal view in modern scholarship is to take "elect lady" as a metonym for a church that is metaphorically personified as a woman.

Drawing upon a wide range of evidence that includes Greek papyri, New Testament manuscripts, and a host of other sources, this study shows that the received address printed in all editions of the Greek New Testament is not correct. Rather, the address should be rendered a¼ÎºÎ»ÎÎºÏa Ïa ÎºÏÏÎ¹ÌÎ±I and translated "to the lady Eclecte" so that the principal recipient of the letter is a named woman. This reading makes far more sense with the letter as a whole and makes it the only text in the entire New Testament canon addressed to a woman.

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