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Joanna was one of the women associated with the ministry of
Jesus of Nazareth, often considered to be one of the
disciples. In the
Bible, she's one of the women recorded in the
Gospel of Luke as accompanying Jesus and the twelve: "
Mary, called Magdalene, ... and Joanna the wife of
Herod's steward Chuza, and
Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources" (Luke 8:2-3).
Joanna is also among the women who went to prepare Jesus' body in
Luke's account of the
Resurrection, and who later told the
apostles and other disciples about the empty tomb and words of the "two men in dazzling clothes".
Both Richard J. Bauckham and Ben Witherington III conclude that the disciple Joanna is the same woman as the Christian
Junia mentioned by Paul in his
Epistle to the Romans (Romans 16:7).
She is honoured as a
saint in the
Eastern Orthodox Church on the "Sunday of the
Myrrhbearers", which is two Sundays after
Pascha (Easter), and in the
Roman Catholic Church on
May 24. She is commemorated in the
Calendar of Saints of the
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod on
August 3 together with
Mary, the Mother of James and
Salome.
Derivatives are : St. Jessica, St. Jennifer.
Joanna in literature
Joanna was a secondary character in
Margaret George’s
2002 novel Mary, Called Magdalene. In the novel, Joanna, cast from
Herod’s household by Chuza for being
possessed, is healed by Jesus in
Capernaum. She then joins the other disciples. She is the second woman, after Mary, and becomes her friend.
Joanna is the main character in Mary Rourke's 2006 novel
Two Women of Galilee. In Rourke's telling, Joanna is the daughter of a family that had become
Hellenized and ceased to practice
Judaism as they obtained a privileged position in the court of Herod. Mary is Joanna's long-lost cousin from a branch of the family that was still observant. When they meet they become close friends. Joanna meets Jesus through her friendship with Mary and he heals her of tuberculosis. The story centers on the friendship of Joanna and Mary, retelling events from the Gospel from the women's point of view.
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