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Paul, Women & Wives: Marriage and Women’s Ministry in the Letters of Paul is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing passages from the Apostle. Now, in a challenging new attempt to wrestle with these thorny texts, Craig Keener delves as deeply into the world of Paul and the apostles as anyone thus far. Acknowledging that we must take the biblical text seriously and recognizing that Paul’s letters...

to domineer over men.” On this reading, Paul, who wants women to “learn quietly,” does not want them to teach disruptively—something he also would have forbidden men to do.75 This is not a new suggestion; it was proposed by evangelical supporters of the women’s movement in the 1800s.76 Moo suggests that the term may mean either “have authority” or “usurp authority,” but he contends that the idea of usurpation should only be read in it if it is suggested by the context.77 It is difficult to evaluate
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