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Women's Place in Biblical Society

This paper examines some of the statements about women made in the Bible. It is specifically concerned with the question of whether a secondary role for women in a Christian society is asserted, implied, or even allowed by anything in Christian scripture. The conclusion that will be reached after examination of the evidence is that, contrary to popular opinion, there is almost nothing in the Christian scriptures that would allow anything but complete equality for men and women; and those passages were not derived from Jesus or Paul.

The amount of scholarly, popular, and polemical writing on this subject has now reached such a bulk that attempting to cite or discuss any significant percentage of it would exhaust a paper of this length without allowing any significant conclusions to be drawn. Instead, it seems sensible to turn directly to the key scripture passages and see what they actually say, taking advantage of extant scholarship where needed for translation and interpretation of these passages.

One may note that the literature on this topic tends to fall into two camps. One is the ôliberalö school that attempts to argue for complete and absolute equality between men and women. The other is the ôconservativeö school that attempts to argue that the ôtraditionalö family values which relegated women to second-class status were based completely on Scripture; Grudem is a typical example of this sort of thought. Although this writer generally has problems with liberal theology, it will be argued here that on this point the liberals have paid more attention to what the Greek text of the New Testament actually says on this point.

The passages that need to be discussed occur throughout the Gospels and epistles, but some of the most important of these passages appear in Luke and in Paul, especially Corinthians. The discussion will tend to fall into two major categories: of passages that clearly imply or assert gender e...

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