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I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking 1 Timothy 2:11–15 in Light of Ancient Evidence is unavailable, but you can change that!

This passage troubles those who desire greater leadership roles for women in ministry but who also want to remain loyal to Scripture. Did Paul forbid a woman to exercise her leadership and teaching gifts, or was he dealing with a particular error in the church? According to I Suffer Not a Woman, Paul was reacting to a specific problem that was sweeping churches: a myth, taught mostly by women,...

women but with a strong repudiation of a popular false teaching which glorified Eve and the serpent. Still others look at 1 Timothy 2:9–15 in a manner which may give a seriously distorted view of God’s redemptive grace. Not long ago we heard a professor of New Testament declare, “The verse is not complicated, the argument of the passage seems clear, and the normal lexical meanings of the terms seem to fit well.”2 This professor linked God’s judgment upon Eve at the
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