RE: Was Jesus was the first advocate in Women’s Right to Equal Education?

It seems to me that God was always trying to bring equality to people in the Bible. It sometimes doesn't look like it to us as moderns, but a lot of the laws in the Old Testament about women were actually groundbreaking laws protecting women's rights. The problem is, people were so backward and violent back in those days that God was forced to make changes a little at a time.

It's not until Jesus comes on the scene that we learn God's true heart. Jesus loves everyone. Lots of Jesus' original followers were women, and they traveled with Him and supported Him. (Luke 8)

Paul also thought Jesus was teaching equality.

Ga; 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I think all the stuff about women being in leadership and separated etc. is nothing more than people taking Paul's letters as prescription for all Christianity and not pastoral letters addressing specific communities dealing with real issues in their lives. If you think about Paul's letters as responses to issues the churches were having, then you can leave some room for things going on in the background we don't know about. It also allows you to consider that there were cultural considerations that would have had an impact on Paul's prescriptions that just aren't applicable to us today.

Thanks for the addition information @garthfreeman , but interestingly to say about what you mentioned in your statement:

consider that there were cultural considerations that would have had an impact on Paul's prescriptions that just aren't applicable to us today
When we, as you mentioned, looked into the bible (like Paul's epistles) in a context environment, zoom out a little and see through the historical events (and including the book of Acts), we might have not been that far different back then and now.
I went through an introduction study for the Paul-line epistles, I was actually quite surprised with the lifestyle in the Corinthian days are not that much of a different than our modern times; from how the buildings were and how the social cultures were back then.
And I too agree that if we read deeper into God's meaning even from the old testament times, God tries to restore the identity of the woman, only to have heart harden society (the Israelite) to break it again and again.
Thank you so much for making time providing such valuable discussion into this post!
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