Question: What was the name of the first female Christian believer in Athens?
Answer: Damaris. (Acts 17:34)
Comments: The only converts named resulting from Paul's visit to Athens are a man named Dionysius and a woman named Damaris. Interpreters as early and as John Chrysostom (347–407) have speculated that the couple was married. This theory is highly speculative.
But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. (Acts 17:34, NASB)
This is the only time Damaris is referenced in Scripture.
In 1991, popular inspirational fiction novelist Jannette Oke published a book titled A Woman Named Damaris in her Women Of West series. In the book, the titular character seeks the meaning of her name, knowing only that its orgins stem from the Bible.
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