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Nov 30, 2012 · The easy answer would have been to say, “Let the women refrain from praying and prophesying when you meet in worship.” Rather, Paul affirms the rightness of having both male and female leadership in public worship.
- See Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament (New York: Doubleday, 1996), 513; Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 290.
- Ehrman, The New Testament, 290.
- In 1 Corinthians Paul says seven times, “It is written” (see 1:19; 2:9; 3:19; 9:10; 10:7; 14:21), obviously drawing upon Old Testament writings. In three places he directly refers to the law of Moses or the children of Israel (see 9:10; 10:1–11; 14:21), and in several places he paraphrases or quotes Isaiah (see 15:32, 54).
- Howard W. Hunter, “Being a Righteous Husband and Father,” Ensign, November 1994, 50.
I. Current Attitudes toward Women During St. Paul's Life. St. Paul, born in the Greek city of Tarsus, and raised as a Jewish boy in a Roman world, grew up in a cultural environment which had its roots, broadly speaking, in four ancient civilizations, that of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Judaea.
The strictly Jewish sources, the Mishnah, the Midrashim and the Talmud, do not refer to Paul directly: cryptic references to him testily uncovered in these add nothing of significance. This almost total silence points to the intensity of Jewish opposition to Paul from the very beginning.
- W. D. Sanders
- 1999
Sep 27, 2022 · Paul’s letters are ambiguous and self-contradictory with regard to the role of women. According to many passages he accepts women’s leadership, for example, praising a female apostle (Junia) and a female deacon (Phoebe).
Nov 10, 2008 · In some texts Paul appears egalitarian; in others he subordinates women to men and insists they keep silent. How should we read him? Egalitarian? It is important to remember at the outset that...
The relationship between Paul the Apostle and women is an important element in the theological debate about Christianity and women because Paul was the first writer to give ecclesiastical directives about the role of women in the Church.
