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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,...

The crucial point is the thrust of the teaching and the results which it produces (1 Tim. 3:10; 4:6, 13, 16; 5:17; 6:3–4; Titus 2:7–8). In the pastoral Epistles didaskein is used in contexts which express or imply the content of the teaching, whether the word is used of the false doctrines which the opponents promulgated (1 Tim. 1:3, 7; 4:1; 6:3; 2 Tim. 4:3; Titus 1:11) or of instruction in the truth (1 Tim. 1:10; 2:7; 4:11, 13, 16; 5:17; 6:1–3; 2 Tim. 1:11; 2:24; 3:10, 16; 4:2–3; Titus 1:9; 2:1,
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