"Greet Andronicus and Junia," Paul wrote in Romans 16:7, "my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles..." Junia is one of nine women mentioned by Paul in (his letter to the church at Rome) ... But as time went on, the mention of a female apostle in Scripture became inconvenient for the increasingly hierarchal Church, so a medieval theologian found a creative solution to the problem: he turned Junia into a man. Andronicus and Junia became Andronicus and Junias.
-- Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, p. 247-248
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