Text in a whirlwind : a critique of four exegetical devices at 1 Timothy 2.9-15 / / J.M. Holmes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789799103321
• Autore: Holmes J. M (Joan M.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• ISBN: 1-283-19990-4; 9786613199904; 0-567-47446-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (403 p.)
• Collana: Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; ; 196. Studies in New Testament Greek ; ; 7
• Disciplina: 227.8306
• Soggetti: Women in Christianity - Biblical teaching
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on a Ph. D thesis: La Trobe University, 1995.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-373) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; PART I 1 TIMOTHY 2.9-12 IN ITS IMMEDIATE CONTEXT; Chapter 1; AN INTRODUCTORY LITERATURE SURVEY; Chapter 2; THE AUTHOR'S STATEMENTS OF PURPOSE, STRUCTURE AND THEME; Chapter 3; 1 TIMOTHY 2.9-10; Chapter 4; 1 TIMOTHY 2.11-12; CONCLUSION TO PART I; PART II 1 TIMOTHY 2.9-12 IN ITS BROADER CONTEXT; Chapter 5; AN INTRODUCTORY LITERATURE SURVEY; Chapter 6; 1 TIMOTHY AS A LETTER: FOUR COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS; Chapter 7; REFLECTIONS OF HERESY: A FIFTH COMMON MISCONCEPTION; Chapter 8; PARAENESIS ON WOMEN: A SIXTH COMMON MISCONCEPTION; CONCLUSION TO PART II; PART III 1 CORINTHIANS 14.34-35: A PARALLEL?Chapter 9; AN INTRODUCTORY LITERATURE SURVEY AND OUTLINE OF THE CORINTHIAN BACKGROUND; Chapter 10; INTERPRETATIONS OF 1 CORINTHIANS 14.34-35; CONCLUSION TO PART III; PART IV THE ROLE OF yap AT 1 TIMOTHY 2.13-15; Chapter 11; AN INTRODUCTORY LITERATURE SURVEY; Chapter 12; THE FIRST MARKER: CONTEXT; Chapter 13; THE SECOND MARKER: ASPECTUAL CHOICES; Chapter 14; THE THIRD MARKER: JEWISH CHARACTER; CONCLUSION TO PART IV; GENERAL CONCLUSION; Appendix 1; FALSE TEACHING AT TITUS 1.14-; 16 AND 2 TIMOTHY 4.3-4; Appendix 2; 1 CORINTHIANS 11.3-16; Appendix 3; ADAM AND EVE IN GENESIS 1-3Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, hi