Tag: gnostic
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Alternative Christianities – Philip Jenkins
Real Clear Religion: Alternative Christianities On average, the Biblical world sees a startling new discovery of allegedly cosmic significance every four or five years. Most recently, we had Jesus's Wife, with the Gospel of Judas not long before that, and no great powers of prophecy are needed to tell that other similar finds will shortly…
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Household: Excursus on 1 Timothy (Part 3)
Previously, I took a first pass at interpreting 1 Timothy 2:8-15. I want to reflect on a few more aspects of verses 11-15 in this passage. A Woman Verses 9-10 talk about "women." Starting at verses 11-12, the passage talks about "a woman" in the singular. Verses 13-14 talk about a single woman, Eve. Verse…