Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul’s Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians (Biblia.com)

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Making sense of Paul's arguments in 1 Corinthians 11-14 regarding both the role of women in public worship and the value of tongues and prophecy for the unbeliever has long posed challenges for any lay reader or scholar. Despite numerous explanations offered over the years, these passages remain marked by inconsistencies, contradictions, and puzzles. Lucy Peppiatt offers a reading of 1...

possibility in relation to the three passages in chapters 11–14, I began to see a pattern emerging in the text. As I compared 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 with 1 Corinthians 14:33b–36, I found that other scholars have for some time been arguing that Paul was using a rhetorical strategy in the latter passage to argue against the Corinthian men who were trying to silence (possibly married) women. The passage on tongues and prophecy in 14:20–25 is similarly a source of great confusion, containing as it does an apparently

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