This article has been reprinted from Tabletalk magazine, May 1999, with permission of Ligonier Ministries, P.O. Box 547500, Orlando, FL 32854, phone 800-435-4343.

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.

  Excerpted With Permission From "A Foreign World: Ephesus In The First Century," By S. M. Baugh, In Women In The Church: A Fresh Analysis Of 1 Timothy 2:9-15, Edited By A. J. Köstenberger, T. R. Schreiner, And H. S. Baldwin (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995), 47-48

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