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From: Jim West 
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Bob,
At 01:48 PM 1/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Case in point: 1 Cor. 14:34-35 (concerning women being silent in
>church). These verses are embarrassing to moderns, since they are
>so obviously sexist. We'd like to be rid of them.
>

Just as an aside- women are urged to be silent (only at Corinth, where
trouble was aplenty) because they were disrupting the service by asking
questions of their husbands (who sat across the aisle from them and thus not
exactly within whispering proximity)- Thus Paul urges them to ask questions
at home and not disrupt the speaker.  This is, then, not an injunction for
women not to speak in church; rather it is an injunction to act in an
orderly fashion.  Therefore efforts to expunge the text are undertaken
simply because the "Sitz im Leben" has been forgotten by some interpreters.

>And, indeed, we see Gordon D. Fee (I think it was) arguing to
>omit them, simply because they are found after verse 40 in D F G it.
>If it weren't for the fact that we dislike the verses so much,
>no one would argue for their removal.
>
I have no trouble with it.  Those who dislike it simply do not perceive the
purpose for which it was written.

Jim

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