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Context Makes Meaning: Word Studies, Part 2
By: Jeff Miller | September 2, 2020
How do we know what a word means? A linguist could spend a career answering this question, but here’s the simple answer: Words do not have meaning outside of context. It is the context that makes meaning.
Are Words Less Than the Sum of Their Parts? Word Studies, Part 1
By: Jeff Miller | August 26, 2020
This is the first in a series of four blogs that demonstrate common Bible word study fallacies and why they are important for egalitarians studying Scripture to know. Word studies are a common part of Bible interpretation.
Unveiling Old Testament Women with Accurate Translation
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | October 31, 2019
Cleansing the Bible of counter-cultural female roles not only masculinizes history, it also deprives women of a broader picture of how God has and might use women and their gifts in church, home, and society.
Is 1 Corinthians 14:34–35 a Marginal Comment or a Quotation? A Response to Kirk MacGregor
By: Philip B. Payne | April 26, 2019
First Corinthians 14 contains the only passage in the Bible that at face value silences women or restricts their ministry in the churches. It is important for all who believe Scripture to understand the truth about this passage.
Lessons from Scripture for Maasai Christianity, Lessons from Maasai Culture for the Global Church
By: Joshua Robert Barron | April 26, 2019
Maasai believers need a Maasai Christianity within which they “feel at home" to “enable women to view the Bible through African eyes and to distinguish and extract from it what is liberating.”
Junia, a Female Apostle: An Examination of the Historical Record
By: Dennis J. Preato | April 26, 2019
Romans 16:7 presents two interpretive issues. Was the person named Iounian a man or a woman and was Iounian counted as “highly regarded among the apostles” or only “highly regarded by the apostles”?
The Power of Bible Translation
By: Aloo Mojola | April 26, 2019
Most people read a translated Bible, a domesticated Bible that by means of translators’ mediation has crossed time, space, language, and culture. Bible translators strive to provide people with access to this ancient text.
Editor's Reflection: Spring 2019
By: Jeff Miller | April 26, 2019
The theme of this issue of Priscilla Papers is Bible Translation. We featured this same theme four years ago, in the spring of 2015, but it is an important topic and worthy of considerable attention.
A Woman Who Serves
By: Charity Sandstrom | March 27, 2019
Does 1 Timothy 3:8-13 discount the possibility of women deacons? Not at all.
Does "Man" Always Mean "Man" in the Bible?
By: Jeff Miller | April 4, 2018
Most evangelical egalitarians know that the Bible has words that mean “man/men” and words that mean “person/people, human(s).” Many egalitarians also know that some Bible translations use “man/men” to translate words which aren’t limited to men.