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Are Christians Called to Mature Manhood? The ESV of Ephesians 4:13 Misses the Point—Even for Complementarians
By: Jeff Miller | September 5, 2021
The ESV translation of Ephesians 4:13 only creates confusion in a complementarian setting. It causes some women to question whether they can become mature Christians to the extent that men can. And that’s not okay.
Correcting Caricatures: Women and Bible Translation
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | September 5, 2021
We stand united in Christ to proclaim women’s dignity and purpose through accurate Bible translations, remembering that dehumanizing ideas about people lead to dehumanizing actions.
Kephale is a Body Part: Unified Interdependence in Relationship in Ephesians 5
By: Christy Hemphill | April 30, 2021
The primary task when considering Paul's assertion, “the husband is the head of the wife,” should be discovering the meaning of this head-and-body metaphor, not arguing for an extended metaphorical sense of half of the metaphor—the single word, "head."
Do Words Have Gender? Word Studies, Part 4
By: Jeff Miller | October 7, 2020
This is the fourth blog in a series on Bible word studies for egalitarians. This entry explores whether words have gender and shows how the grammatical gender in Hebrew and Greek show up in Bible translation.
How Much Does a Word Mean? Word Studies, Part 3
By: Jeff Miller | September 30, 2020
This is the third in a series about Bible word studies and translation for egalitarians. This entry focuses on a particular instance of a word doesn’t contain all the meaning that the word can carry in 1 Timothy 2.
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.
Engaging Women with a Suffering Sophia: Prospects and Pitfalls for Evangelicals
By: Cristina S. Richie | July 31, 2020
Naming God as “Sophia” critically aligns the Divine with a specifically female concept, while also expanding the theological understanding of the character and attributes of God-Sophia.
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.
Did You Know Jacob Had Daughters Too?
By: Jeff Miller | July 24, 2019
As we all know, Jacob (also called Israel) had twelve sons. You probably also know from the tragic story in Genesis 34 that Jacob had a daughter as well, Dinah. But did you know that Jacob had other daughters?