Text-Critical and Intertextual Remarks on 1 Tim 2:8-10.

After reassessing the various ways of dealing with the ellipsis in 1 Tim 2:9, it is argued that βoνλoμαι πρoσενχεσθαι offers a plausible resolution. Yet the ambiguity of the text suggests that 1 Tim 2:8-15 resulted from using several sources. The intertextual analysis shows that 1 Timothy very likel...

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Published in:Novum Testamentum Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 376 - 407
Main Authors: Zamfir, Korinna, Verheyden, Joseph
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers Oct2008
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Summary:After reassessing the various ways of dealing with the ellipsis in 1 Tim 2:9, it is argued that βoνλoμαι πρoσενχεσθαι offers a plausible resolution. Yet the ambiguity of the text suggests that 1 Tim 2:8-15 resulted from using several sources. The intertextual analysis shows that 1 Timothy very likely used as a pre-text the cultic rule found in 1 Cor 11 and its context. A second pre-text consists of a station code tradition and of Neo-Pythagorean exhortations. This complex intertextual enterprise allows 1 Tim to "correct" Paul's more permissive attitude regarding the role men and women can play in public worship.