Scot McKnight’s Substack

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Finally, 2 (So What Did Paul Mean?)

“I like Sandra Glahn’s book, Nobody’s Mother. The subtitle is a dead giveaway: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament. She patiently examines the Artemis cult of Ephesus and the ancient world in order to explain the difficult passage in first Timothy chapter 2 verse 15. What does “saved through childbearing" mean? Or, more explicitly, what did it mean in Ephesus where the typical woman convert to faith in Jesus would have come from the Artemis religion? To whom would she pray for protection?…”