Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I WOMEN IN FIRST CENTURY CULTURES
- PART II JESUS AND WOMEN
- PART III PAUL AND WOMEN
- 8 Women and the physical family
- 9 Paul and the household tables
- 10 Women and the family of faith
- 11 Paul and his female co-workers
- 12 The Pastoral Epistles
- PART IV WOMEN AND THE EVANGELISTS
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
12 - The Pastoral Epistles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I WOMEN IN FIRST CENTURY CULTURES
- PART II JESUS AND WOMEN
- PART III PAUL AND WOMEN
- 8 Women and the physical family
- 9 Paul and the household tables
- 10 Women and the family of faith
- 11 Paul and his female co-workers
- 12 The Pastoral Epistles
- PART IV WOMEN AND THE EVANGELISTS
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Behavior at worship – 1 Tim. 2.8 – 15
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; (9) also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire (10) but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion. (11) Let a woman learn in quietness with all submissiveness. (12) I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent. (13) For Adam was formed first, then Eve; (14) and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. (15) Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.
Whether the Pastoral Epistles were written by Paul or by a later Paulinist, in all likelihood they represent a development of Pauline thought and practice. The question that the Pastorals raise is, are they a legitimate development of or a development away from the Pauline preaching and practice? This question becomes especially acute when we examine 1 Timothy 2 which seems to be a development of 1 Cor. 14, but also seems to go beyond, if not against, Paul's teaching in 1 Cor. 14.
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- Women and the Genesis of Christianity , pp. 191 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990