Better Bible Blogs: Contrary to Nature by Suzanne McCarthy (WARNING: To my male Southern Baptist readers: This post was written by a woman! If you are a man, I wouldn't want you to find yourself being taught by a woman inadvertently.)
It is generally accorded that females score somewhat higher at a young age in verbal intelligence than males, and males score higher on visual spatial tasks such as rotations. This is one of the least contested aspects of the difference between cognitive functioning in males and females. …
So how is it that women are not allowed to teach men languages? The Southern Baptist Convention, which believes in the difference between men and women, does not allow a woman to teach a man biblical languages. Are they not going contrary to nature? Women should be 'helpers' – but not in the area of biblical languages.
Note the distinctions and boundaries. A woman may teach a teenager Greek and Hebrew. (IMO that is the optimum time to learn these languages.) A woman may teach a man French or German. A woman may teach a man grammar and composition. A woman may teach a non-Christian man Greek or Hebrew. A woman may teach the biblical languages if she does so in a secular university. A woman may teach a man Greek or Hebrew if the text being studied is not the Bible. A woman may write about Greek and Hebrew. A woman may be quoted by a man on Greek and Hebrew. A woman may teach a man Greek and Hebrew if she does so in another country, not her own.
May a woman blog about the biblical languages. May a man read a blog written by a woman on biblical languages? They say blogging is nearer to spoken discourse than published articles. It is getting dicey indeed!
What I wonder is how God keeps all these rules straight. …
I love this post. But to laugh or to cry?
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