public shaming and humiliation (Dio Chrysostom 64.2f.) or of misfortune or mourning (Plutarch Quaest. Rom. 267B). This text raises a number of questions for us. First, why does Paul want to maintain for women, but not for men, the Roman practice of covering the head when engaging in a religious act? The bulk of his argument is taken up with providing a theological rationale for this (vv. 2–12). The theological rationale is not brought in as an afterthought to prop up an argument primarily grounded