Nobody's Mother

<P><B><I>Christianity Today</I> Book Award Finalist-Biblical Studies</B></P><P><B><I>Foreword</I> INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist</B></P><P><B>How Has Misinterpreting Paul Led to the Silencing of Women?</B></P><P>Some Christians think Paul's reference to saved through childbearing in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that women are slated primarily for delivering and raising children. Alternate readings however sometimes fail to build on the best historical and textual evidence.</P><P>Sandra Glahn thinks that we have misunderstood Paul by misunderstanding the context to which he wrote. A key to reading and applying 1 Timothy Glahn argues lies in getting to know a mysterious figure who haunts the letter: the goddess Artemis.</P><P>Based on groundbreaking research and new data about Artemis of the Ephesians <I>Nobody's Mother</I>:</P><ul><li>Demonstrates how better background information supports faithful interpretation</li><li>Combines spiritual autobiography with scholarly exploration taking readers on a journey to ancient Ephesus and across early church history and</li><li>Unveils the cult of Artemis and how early Christians related to it can give us a clearer sense of the type of radical countercultural fellowship the New Testament writers intended Christ's church to be.</li></ul><P>This book is for those who want to avoid sacrificing a high view of Scripture while working to reconcile conflicting models of God's view of women. Through the unexpected channel of Paul's advice to Timothy-and the surprising help of an ancient Greek myth-<I>Nobody's Mother</I> lays a biblical foundation for men and women serving side by side in the church.</P><P>Mining an impressive wealth of research including artifacts Ephesian inscriptions and literature from the likes of Homer and Pliny the Elder Glahn makes an exacting case that Paul's words described a specific time-bound situation-debunking interpretations tying women to childbirth and barring them from church leadership for subsequent generations. It's a rigorous and much needed reassessment of a passage long used to silence women in the church. <B>- Publishers Weekly Starred Review July 2023</B></P>