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Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vision for Men and Women in Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Coherent Pauline Theology of Gender Respected New Testament scholar Cynthia Long Westfall offers a coherent Pauline theology of gender, which includes fresh perspectives on the most controverted texts. Westfall interprets passages on women and men together and places those passages in the context of the Pauline corpus as a whole. She offers viable alternatives for some notorious interpretive...

invert meanings were recognized as one of the four fundamental operations of figures of speech by classic rhetoricians.19 This chapter provides some cultural background in key areas that inform our interpretation of gender in Paul. It will show that Paul’s intended pragmatic effects for some of his teachings on gender subvert and transform what was familiar to his recipients, even effecting the opposite of what is frequently held to be the literal interpretation.
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