Insight into Two Biblical Passages

Leland E. Wilshire, Th.M., Ph.D., has taught at USC, Los Angeles, Wagner College, New York City, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, and now Biola University, La Mirada, California. He is an ordained United Church of Christ minister, recently retired, having served churches in Los Angeles, New York City, and Campbell, Minnesota. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at Yale, Notre Dame, Harvard, and Columbia. He has published in New Testament Studies,The Journal of Biblical Literature,Neo-Scholasticism,The Classical Journal, and others.

• Part 1 The Anatomy of Prohibition: I Timothy 2.12, the TLG Computer, and the Christian ChurchChapter 2 ForewordChapter 3 PrefacePart 4 Part IChapter 5 1. The I Timothy 2.12 Passage and Its DifficultiesChapter 6 2. Phillology, Lexicons, and the Computer Databank: A New Opening in Understanding the I Tim. 2.12 ProhibitionChapter 7 3. A 1984 Attempt by George W. Knight III, by the use of Lexicons, to deal with the word authenteinChapter 8 4. The Use of the Computer Data and Other Citations in a Background Study of the Word AUTHENTEO in I Tim. 2.12Chapter 9 5. A New Interpretation of the I Tim. 2.12 Prohibition in Light of the New Computer Databank UnderstandingChapter 10 6. Three Sample Alternative Approaches: that of Paul W. Barnett, Catherine C. Kroeger, and the Editors of Women in the ChurchPart 11 Part IIChapter 12 Introduction: The Anatomy of Prohibition: The New Interpretation and its Contemporary ApplicationsChapter 13 1. ExegesisChapter 14 2. GenderChapter 15 3. HermeneuticsChapter 16 4. TraditionChapter 17 5. TheologyChapter 18 6. AuthorityChapter 19 7. EcclesiologyChapter 20 8. RelevancePart 21 Supplement: The Anatomy of Prohibition: A History of Traditional Translations, Mistranslations, and InterpretationsChapter 22 1. The Use of I Tim. 2.12 Prohibition in the Traditional Interpretations of the Greek Early ChurchChapter 23 2. The Use of the Prohibition in the Traditional Translations and Interpretations of the Latin Early ChurchChapter 24 3. Traditional Translations and Interpretations of the Prohibition during the Middle AgesChapter 25 4. Reformulations of the Prohibition during the Era of the Renaissance and ReformationChapter 26 5. Differing English Translations of the I Tim. 2.12 Prohibition in Modern History and their Use in the Current Understandings of Women in Ecclesiastical LeadershipChapter 27 NotesChapter 28 Working BibliographyPart 29 The Servant City: The "Servant Songs" of Isaiah 40-66 and the Fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC/BCEChapter 30 ForewordChapter 31 PrefaceChapter 32 1. Background: Three Interpretations of the Fall of Jerusalem 586 BC/BCEChapter 33 2. The "Suffering Servant" Metaphor in the "Servant Songs" of Isaiah 40-66 Relating to the Destruction of the City of JerusalemChapter 34 3. The Voice of the Isaianic "Servant Songs" within the Ancient Near Eastern Literary Tradition of Destroyed Cultic CentersChapter 35 4. The Meaning and Future of the "Suffering Servant" Metaphor in "Isaiah" (Isaiah 40-66) Concerning the Destruction of JerusalemChapter 36 NotesChapter 37 Working Bibliography