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Priscilla Papers is a quarterly journal published by Christians for Biblical Equality in order to provide articles on biblical interpretation, theology, church history, and other academic disciplines as they relate to men and women offering mutual service in the church, home, and world. Priscilla Papers is intended for original scholars and opinion leaders, serious Bible students, egalitarians...

Curt Purcell* Even if they appear to be otherwise, oppressive situations … are inherently unstable. Patricia Hill Collins1 Some time ago, J. I. Packer published a short piece in Christianity Today, titled “Let’s Stop Making Women Presbyters.”2 As the title suggests, this piece is a straightforward example of the age-old attempt to justify the treatment of women as second-class and substandard—an oppressive gesture, even if unintended as such. However, if
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