Church members are frequently told to use their spiritual gifts to bless others and glorify God, but 1 Timothy 2:8-15 seems to go out of its way to limit the acceptable roles women can take. Is this passage as regressive as it appears? Or is there important information we’ve missed in our surface level interpretation?

I sit down with Dr. Sandra Glahn, author of the recently released book Nobody’s Mother, in order to discover who Artemis of Ephesus was, how her cult impacted Paul’s writing, and what that means for how we read 1 Timothy today.

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Other Resources:

Power and Magic: The Concept of Power in Ephesians By Clinton Arnold

Ephesians and Artemis: The Cult of the Great Goddess of Ephesus as the Epistle's Context by Michael Immendorfer

Rediscovering Scripture's Vision for Women: Fresh Perspectives on Disputed Texts By Lucy Peppiatt