Let women not despair : Rabanus Maurus on women as prophets

[Editor's Note: In his medieval commentary on the Book of Judges and in other writings, Rabanus Maurus refers to Deborah as a judge and prophet. The author argues that Rabanus's surprising openness to ecclesiastical ministry for women derives from the practice of lectio divina that he shared with pre-Scholastic theologians. The legacy of these theologians needs to be reappropriated and understood by the modern Church so that it will achieve a fuller assimilation of Christian tradition.]