Text in a Whirlwind : A Critique of Four Exegetical Devices at 1 Timothy 2.9-15

Holmes, John Mark

ISBN 10: 1841271217 / ISBN 13: 9781841271217

Published by Sheffield Academic Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Text in a Whirlwind : A Critique of Four Exegetical Devices at 1 Timothy 2.9-15
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841271217
• ISBN 13: 9781841271217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Holmes examines four exegetical devices employed by all sides in the debate on 1 Tim. 2.9-15, proposing that together they create a 'whirlwind' effect which obscures the text's meaning. She concludes that (1) the immediate context is general, not ecclesial; (2) background often reconstructed from passages elsewhere in the Pastorals is misleading; (3) comparison with 1 Cor. 14.34-35 can similarly mislead; and (4) the conjunction gar ('for') has been allowed unduly to dominate interpretation. The writer of the letter, it is argued, has been misunderstood since very early in the Christian era, his intention having been simply to moderate women's everyday behaviour in ways that parallel the behaviour he requires of men.

About the Authors

J.M. Holmes is a part-time tutor in the Department of History at La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.