Craig

Thanks for doing this research Dave. It does seem a bit over my head.

I think the question I was trying to formulate in #179 is this:
“One of the tricky things about this passage is that there are 2 women mentioned- Eve and the Ephesian woman. I wonder what your lecturer would think if Paul had given a different reason for the prohibition (just hypothetically). If the reason didn’t mention Eve or any other woman, then the only woman in the passage would be the “woman” of v11,12. Then “”the woman” of v14b,15 would have to refer to the specific Ephesian woman. I wonder if there is anything in the Greek that can’t refer to a specific Ephesian woman if Eve was not in the passage? For example, if Eve was not mentioned, would there be any problem with the singular “woman” of v11,12, the conjunction “gar’, the anaphoric reference, the perfect verb considering the verbal aspect theory, the “she” of v15, or anything else pointing to a specific Ephesian woman?”

Do you think this is a reasonable question to ask?