Refutation of the 'separate seating' theory: no evidence men and women sat separately in early churches

Some argue women were shouting questions across the room to their husbands because men and women were segregated in church seating. Mike responds: (1) All problems with the education view apply here. (2) There is simply no evidence for gender-segregated seating in early churches. The Jewish temple had a Court of Women, but that was the temple, not a synagogue or house church. Craig Keener confirms: 'There is no clear architectural suggestion of segregation in the average local synagogue. The custom of gender segregation in the synagogue seems to have first arisen in the Middle Ages.'