vol. 35, Issue #3

Online Journal Article: "Women In Church Office: Hermeneutics Or Exegesis? A Survey Of Approaches To 1 Tim 2:8-15" By Gordon P. Hugenberger* Jets 35/3 (September 1992) 341-360 [Gender Studies]

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"WOMEN IN CHURCH OFFICE:
HERMENEUTICS OR EXEGESIS?
A SURVEY OF APPROACHES TO 1 TIM 2:8-15"
by GORDON P. HUGENBERGER*
JETS 35/3 (September 1992) 341-360

Excerpt:
It has become commonplace in recent scholarship to acknowledge the
determinative role of hermeneutics in the discussion of the Scriptural
right of women to hold church office.1
Even if I was competent to do so, in
the present study it is not my concern to address the larger issues raised
by women's ordination or feminism. My concern, rather, is to demonstrate
that while the crucial role of hermeneutics is not to be denied, the current
discussion still appears to be vexed all too frequently by an assumed but
perhaps faulty exegesis of the relevant Biblical texts.
As an illustration of this point the present essay will consider 1 Tim
2:8-15, generally conceded to be the most forceful of the handful of NT
passages that appear to oppose the right of women to hold church office.2
For convenience I will begin with a summary of what may be called the
"traditional" exegesis of 1 Tim 2:8-15. Following this I will analyze four
alternative hermeneutical approaches to this widely held exegesis,
--from the first page of the article