Kostenberger's syntactic study: two infinitives joined by oude

Kostenberger examined the grammatical pattern in 1 Tim 2:12: 'I do not permit a woman to teach (didaskein) or (oude) to exercise authority (authentein) over a man.' He studied every instance in the NT and contemporary literature where two infinitives are joined by oude ('nor') and found a consistent pattern: both infinitives are always either both positive or both negative in meaning. They never have one positive and one negative. Since didaskein ('to teach') is universally acknowledged as a positive concept in Paul's usage (teaching in the church is good), authentein must also be positive. This eliminates all pejorative translations of authenteo ('domineer,' 'usurp,' 'be violent toward') because those would create a positive-negative pair, violating the syntactic pattern.