Re: [asa] Gender Roles & Genesis Interpretation

Christine,

I can heartily recommend the work of Pauline Scholar Gordon Fee on this
issue - his commentary on I Cor covers this well.

Some of Gordon's thoughts on the subject can be found here:

http://www.cbeinternational.org/new/free_articles/free_articles.shtml

dennis

On 5/9/08 1:15 PM, "Christine Smith" <christine_mb_smith@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was pondering the role of women in church with
> respect to the New Testament texts (a particularly
> thorny question for me, as I don't like the idea of
> writing off such texts as merely "the culture of the
> time"), and as I reread them, the thought occurred to
> me--if we understand Genesis 2 & 3 in
> mythological/theological terms, rather than strictly
> "literal" or "historical" terms, how then does this
> affect our interpretation of (in particular) I
> Corinthians 11:2-16 and I Timothy 2: 8-15. And
> conversely, how should these NT texts affect our
> interpretation of Genesis? Just curious on what your
> insights might be into this...thanks!
>
> In Christ,
> Christine (ASA member)
>
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