RE: Women and Authority in 1 Tim. 2:12? Craig Blomberg
Posted in New Testament by Craig Blomberg on November 18th, 2010Denny, you may choose to try to intuit the committee’s intent, but since I was on it and was the one who made the proposal to use “assume authority” (without having been on the TNIV committee and therefore oblivious to their discussion on it) and because I wrote the paragraph you quoted from the translator’s notes, I can tell you authoritatively that we did NOT choose this rendering to tip the scales one way or the other. Whether you are a complementarian or an egalitarian, you have some view of what Paul thinks women should not do here, in terms of exercising authority. When they violate that, whatever it is, they inappropriately assume authority. That’s all we were saying. Please don’t impute intentions that lead you to react to them negatively, that may in fact be mistaken inferences, when you have the opportunity to actually ask us and find out the truth. The Golden Rule remains very useful in contexts like this.
Craig Blomberg is distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado. He has been a member of the Committee on Bible Translation since 2008.
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