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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT attbi.com>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: 1 Timothy 2:11-15
  • Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 20:18:47 -0600


Ntsearcher AT aol.com wrote:

> Is anyone familiar with the interpretation given to this thorny passage (see
> subject line) that is rooted in the notion that women who were influenced by
> proto-gnostic ideas regarding Eve's introduction to the tree of "gnosis" is
> what Paul was combatting there? Thus his treatment on women being silent and
> not teaching was in effect a very localized prescription.
>
> If any of you have spent time on this passage, I'd like to talk to you
> off-line about it as well. Anything you can offer on-line will be of help as
> well.
>
> Footnote: I have never heard a satsifying interpretation for v. 15. 'women
> shall be saved through child-bearing.'
>

Have you read the discussion of this text in V.P. Furnish's _Moral Issues in
St. Paul_?

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson


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