Professor John Barclay john.barclay@durham.ac.uk
Professor
1 Tim 5.3-16 defines which women may be registered for financial support at church expense. It is integrated around four ‘household rules’, but is not concerned to regulate an ‘order’ or ‘office’ of widows. Rather, it clarifies that the church should not supplant households in financial matters, and should be responsible only for destitute widows who have no other network support. Since χήρα can mean ‘woman without a man’, the instructions in 5.11-15 are best interpreted as directed against young women who have chosen celibacy. By contrast, the author conceives of the church as a network of Christian households connected by mutual economic support.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 24, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 27, 2020 |
Publication Date | Apr 30, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Oct 3, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 3, 2019 |
Journal | New Testament Studies |
Print ISSN | 0028-6885 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-8145 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 66 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 268-287 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0028688519000456 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1319509 |
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