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Gary Hoag and Sandra Glahn's updated Artemis arguments

ALL The Debates Over 1 Tim 2_11-15: Women in Ministry part 12 (it took me a year to make this) 03:15:00 – 03:25:00

Mike addresses more recent egalitarian attempts to revive the Artemis cult argument with updated evidence.

Gary Hoag and Sandra Glahn have attempted to refresh the Artemis argument: Glahn argues for a 'new feminism' in Ephesus connected to Artemis worship, and Hoag connects the dress instructions in 1 Tim 2:9-10 to Artemis cult practices. Mike evaluates these claims and finds them wanting: (1) Glahn's evidence largely comes from literary/mythological texts, not from the actual social reality of Ephesus; (2) The dress instructions in v.9-10 match standard Greco-Roman moral instruction found across many NT letters, not just those to Ephesus; (3) Similar modesty instructions appear in 1 Peter 3:3-4, written to churches in various locations, showing this was a general concern, not an Ephesus-specific response to Artemis worship.

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