Sublime

Forty years after Deborah,

nearly half of Christian women (48 percent) had not married until they were eighteen or older.

Scholars agree that one religious leadership role in ancient Israel was uniformly reserved for men—the priesthood (though there is some evidence to suggest the laws may have been disobeyed here and there). Only Aaron and his male descendants could occupy this office (Exod. 28; Lev. 9).

Examples of Christian misogyny are legion: St. Chrysotom said, “What else is woman but a foe to friendship, an unescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic danger, a delectible detriment, an evil of nature;” St. Thomas Aquinas, “The voice of a woman is an invitation to lust, and therefore must not

No other deity is represented on the monuments of ancient Greece and Italy as much as Dionysus, godman of the Eleusinian Mysteries.[

The test of whether there can be a marriage of enduring love between the wild underworld and the earthly psyche is being met, and impressively.

First Timothy 2:8–15 There is no question that the context of 1 Timothy is the presence of false teaching in Ephesus, against which Paul urges Timothy to stand fast.126 Most scholars see some combination of Jewish and Gnostic elements in this heresy. First Timothy 1:6– 11 makes sense only against the background of Jewish debates over the role of To