I suffer not a woman : rethinking 1 Timothy 2:11-15 in light of ancient evidence /

Kroeger, Richard Clark,

I suffer not a woman : rethinking 1 Timothy 2:11-15 in light of ancient evidence / [print] Richard Clark Kroeger and Catherine Clark Kroeger. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Book House, (c)1992. - 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.



I: Approaching the text in its context -- Approaching the Bible with faith -- The pastoral epistles: who wrote them and why -- Destination: Ephesus -- Identifying the problem: evidence from the pastorals -- An examination of 1 Timothy 1:3-2:11 -- II: The prohibition (1 Tim. 2:12) -- A closer look at our target verse -- That strange Greek verb Authentein -- Is another translation possible? -- The feminine as primal source -- III: The prohibition's rationale (1 Tim. 2:13-15) -- Condemnation or refutation? (2:13-14) -- How an important bible story was turned upside down -- New stories for old -- Of Jewish and Gnostic heroines -- The great goddesses and Eve -- The veneration of the serpent and Eve -- Considerations of childbearing (2:15).



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Bible. II, 11-15 --N.T.--Timothy, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Women--Biblical teaching.
Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BS2745 BS2745.K93.I884 1992