Editor's note: Scripture references are to the NASB unless otherwise noted. This essay is a summary of the author's argument in "Ascertaining Women's God-Ordained Roles: An Interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:15, " Bulletin of Biblical Research 7 (1997): 1-38.

  Note: this study was originally undertaken in preparation for the meeting held on May 27, 1997 at the Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs. Only the most significant findings can be presented here.

This essay first appeared in Faith & Mission 14 (1997): 24-48 and was reprinted in Chapter 12 of Studies in John and Gender. Used with permission. 

From Joseph T. Bayly, "Revise Our ‘Sexist' Scriptures?'' in Out of My Mind: The Best of Joe Bayly, ed. Timothy Bayly (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993), 135-38.

Wendy Cotter, "Women's Authority Roles in Paul's Churches: Countercultural or Conventional?" Novum Testamentum 36 (1994): 350-72

This essay is reprinted with permission of Sheffield Academic Press from "Syntactical Background Studies to 1 Tim 2.12 in the New Testament and Extrabiblical Greek Literature," Discourse Analysis and Other Topics in Biblical Greek (ed. Stanley E. Porter and D. A. Carson; JSNTSup 113; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 156-79. It was reprinted in Chapter...