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THE WHIRLWIND, THE
A CONVERGENCE OF FOUR EXEGETICAL DEVICES AT 1 TIMOTHY 2.9-15

By:

Joan Holmes

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

1 May, 2000

Series:

Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement S. No. 196

Pages:

402

Description:

This book re-examines exegetical devices commonly employed by all parties in the debate on 1 Tim.2.9-15. In the light of contextual and linguistic markers including verbal aspect, it concludes that the immediate context is general, not ecclesial.

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.

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Sheffield Academic Press

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