TheMakingOfBiblicalWomanhood

The Making Of Biblical Womanhood

How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Beth Allison Barr 2021, Beaverton Lib., 220.8305 BAR

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• ESV = 2001 English Standard Version of the bible

• Baylor University, associate professor of history, associate dean of the graduate school
• PhD, Medieval History 2004, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Allison_Barr . . . https://www.bethallisonbarr.com

• p001 grew up Southern Baptist in small-town Texas, James Dobson Love for a Lifetime

• p002 2016 Husband Jeb Barr fired as youth pastor after 20 years of service
  • p003 challenging church leadership about women in ministry

  • In 2023, a pastor at Elm Mott Baptist Church north of Waco.

• p004 complementarian churches

  • falsely reinterpret trinity as hierarchical to justify hierarchical subjugation of women
• p016-7 Some male Baylor students expect Dr. Barr to submit academically to her husband

• p017 Russell Moore: pagam patriarchy, women submit to all men; Christian patriarchy, women submit to their husbands.

• p023 Epic of Gilgamesh supports "undeniable historical reality" that men lead and women are homemakers

• p024 women 94% of victims in Texas domestic partner murder-suicides cite

• p025 "What if patriarchy isn't divinely ordained but is a result of human sin?"

• p027 Paige Patterson led SBC to rewrite faith statement emphasizing women's secondary creation and submission to husbands. Dorothy Patterson "led the charge"

• p029 Genesis 3:16 Patriarchy wasn't what God wanted, it was the result of human sin.

• p030 Katherine Bushnell about Genesis, Eve's rebellion was submitting to Adam in place of God

• p033 Clarice Martin, patriarchy extends to racial subjugation

• p035 Acts 9:36 "a certain disciple named Tabitha", the Greek implies one of many female disciples
• p036 Galatians 3:28 "... there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus"
• p042 evangelicals parse the lines of Paul's letters for narrow ethical guidelines, missing Paul's bigger purpose: one in Christ. Instead we keep building our own tower of hierarchy and power.
• p043 John Mirk ca. 1400AD West England, sermon collection Festial
• p044 Wedding ring isn't symbol of wife as husband's property, but reminder to put God first
• p045 John Paul II: justifying female subordination with Ephesians 5 is equivalent to justifying slavery
• p045 how Christians live differently within their Roman context, resistance given the reality of Roman patriarchy

• p047 Rachel Held Evans: Jesus remix of Roman patriarchy

• p047 Shi-Min Lu: Household code sets believers apart, freeing all members of household from Roman oppressive elements.
• p048 Unlike Aristotle, who tells men to rule

• p049 Collossians 3, Paul calls to wives first

• p050 Ephesians 5 verse 21, "be subject to one another out of reverence to Christ"
• p055 leaders of her church made it clear that women could not teach men, period, beginning at age 13

• p061 Paul describes Corinthian practices, then in 1 Corinthians 36 responds "What! Did the word of God originate with you or are you the only ones it has reached?"

• p064 Romans 16 recognizes 10 women, 7 for their ministry, Phoebe as a deacon
• p066 Junia translated as female until the 20th century, then suddenly male "Junias"

• p069 original Junia prominent among the apostles ESV: Junia well known to the apostles

• p072-.. Margery Kempe Margaret of Antioch

• p087 "In a world that didn't accept the word of a woman as a valid witness, Jesus chose women as witnesses for his resurrection."

• p087 NT scholar Ben Witherington: "No, the problem in the chiurch is not strong women, but weak men who feel threatened by strong women ..."

  • Jennifer D. Thibodeaux (2015). The Manly Priest: Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy

• p092 Uncle of Héloïse castrated Abelard

• p094 7th century Saint Cuthbert redefined as misogynist after 10th century

Dr. Barr suggests the church's growing wealth and power attracted men, reducing the power of women

• p097 Christian History Made Easy The Story of Christianity demote women preachers to teachers

• p098 Church History in Plain Language

• p103 The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg by Lyndal Roper Reformation driven by politics and profits

• p105 Barr husband working for MDiv at Baptist-founded Wake Forest University

• p107 teaching presentation for Wake Forest tenure track position focused on women's losses from Reformation -- fail
• p109 After Martin Luther died, wife Katie struggled financially because "women's work" was circumscribed
• p111 1600s, women's status shifted towards "wife" from work

• p112 Andrea Turpin "singleness microaggressions"

• p113 Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

• p114 Fundamentalism and Gender Bendroth 1993

• p115 Argula von Grumbach 1520s Protestant

• p116 Anne Askew burned at the stake for heresy

• p117 Reformation theology replaced the priest with the husband
• p119 ... woman saved through childbearing as an exemplar of the sanctification process for all Christians ...

• p121 1690 Isaac Marlow argued that singing was unbiblical because if the entire congregation sang, women would sing too.

• p127 Instead of Scripture transforming society, society transformed how early modern Christians interpreted the Bible

• p130 Gender inclusive Bible debate, Zondervan NRSV TNIV

• p134 1382-95 Wycliffe's Bible 1525 Tyndale N.T., 1535 Coverdale Bible,

• p138 "Evangelicals should know that medieval people knew scripture at least as well, if not better, than we do today."

• p138 "long tradition of lay access to biblical texts" An Introduction to the Medieval Bible, Frans van Liere

• p143 Medieval clergy use gender-inclusive language to better care for their parishioners

• p145 King James irritated with (seditious) Geneva Bible, commissioned KJV

• p146 false universal language (female subsumed into male)

• p147 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Greek text uses whoever and anyone, modern English Bibles introduce eight to ten male pronouns not in the Greek text

• p149 Tadmor: The Social Universe of the English Bible 2010 Mult Co Lib

  • "the polygamous social universe of the Hebrew Bible was rendered in terms of a monogamous English marital discourse"

• p152 "... modern biblical womanhood for Protestant women owes much more to developments after the sixteenth century ..."

• p154-5 took 9 girls and boys to southern youth camp, upbrided because girl's bra straps showed
• p155 fixation on female purity, cult of domesticity
• p157 Jesus chastised disciples missing the point, while recognizing the strong faith of women ... Jesus has always set women free
• p159 Paul says nothing about cooking or cleaning as having unique import for women

• p162 French & Poska Women and Gender in the Western Past, complementarity

• p164 James Mitchell 1833: women should be paid less to discourage them from working outside the home, where they belonged

• p165 Barbara Welter, The Cult of True Womanhood

• p166 sanctifed in Love of a Lifetime by James Dobson

• p167 Blessed : a history of the American prosperity gospel Kate Bowler 2013

• p168 The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities

• p174 First Baptist Church Elm Mott near Waco, Mrs. Lewis Ball as revival preacher in 1934, 1935, and 1938
• p175 1963 SBC ordained Addie Davis, in 1974 affirmed women's role in ministry.

• p175 Christian freedom for women and other human beings Hollis et al 1975

• p175 Evangelicalism’s Strong History of Women in Ministry Timothy Larsen 2017

• p179 Daughters of thunder : Black women preachers and their sermons, 1850-1979 Bettye Collier-Thomas

• p185 Women and religion in early America, 1600-1850 Marilyn J Westerkamp, 1999

• p186 Are women human? Dorothy Sayers 1971

• p191 Arianism: preacher stating that Jesus is eternally subordinate to God the Father, contra Athanasius

• p179 Daughters of thunder : Black women preachers and their sermons, 1850-1979 Bettye Collier-Thomas

• p185 Women and religion in early America, 1600-1850 Marilyn J Westerkamp, 1999

• p186 Are women human? Dorothy Sayers 1971

• p191 Arianism: preacher stating that Jesus is eternally subordinate to God the Father

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