Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | Winter 2014
An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal exploring Bible interpretation, theology, church history, and other disciplines as they address a biblical view of women’s equality and justice in the home, church, and world.
"Priscilla and Aquila instructed Apollos more perfectly in the way of the Lord." (Acts 18:26)
Academic JournalsThe opinions expressed in these articles are those of the authors. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of CBE International or its members.
Winter 2014
Volume: 28 | Number: 1
Ideas Have Consequences
This issue is about ideas having consequences, finally centering, as we always do, on our target area: making sense of gender relations.
Contents
This issue is about ideas having consequences, finally centering, as we always do, on our target area: making sense of gender relations.
As all issues of Priscilla Papers,this present one has been pieced together over months (and sometimes years), and each editorial is written on a topic relevant to the issue. But, at the [...]
The unilateral authority of males is evident in shaping nearly every culture throughout history. Further, when patriarchy is framed as a biblical ideal, it is not only at odds with the teachings of Scripture and the purposes of God’s covenant people, it also becomes a deadly spiritual disease that chokes life all around it.& [...]
As a boy, I lived on a small family fruit farm. When springtime came, grasses and weeds that coexisted between the rows of fruit trees were ripped and carved so that the soil could breathe and be prepared to support the trees for the coming season. As the weeds were turned over, an important cycle [...]
Rape is a timeless and worldwide1 epidemic that violates the divine image and personhood of a human being and renders its victims voiceless, powerless,2 and fragmented from self, others, and God. Rape causes a desolate and disordered reality psychologically, relationally, and spiritually, often resulting in theological and “existential crisis.”3 Although this crisis [...]
I look at it every now and then.
We both held Him.
I and a grave share that honor.
She holds His shoes in her hands.
They are worn shoes,
but the only clothes not stolen
by Romans and priests and elders
and everyone else who always wanted
a piece of Him. But they cannot have
Domestic violence is the number one cause of injury to women ages 18 to 44. Research now supports that child witnesses of domestic violence suffer lifelong consequences to their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Men who perpetrate abuse on their families hold a belief system that supports their actions. The consequences are literally and figuratively life [...]
Though gender equality has taken gigantic strides inside and outside of the churches in the past decades, there are yet increasingly many, many horrid stories of women and girls whose lives are severely broken by extreme abuses and exploitations beyond description.
As part of the “Bible Themes” series within the larger The Bible Speaks Today collection of Bible commentaries and themes, The Message of Women is an exposition rather than a detailed commentary. It explores the life of women in Old Testament times and in the life of Jesus and the subsequent [...]
