Craig

Thanks everyone for all your helpful comments!
I will probably need to reread the comments to properly digest them all.
I particularly found the comments about grammar useful. Thanks Cheryl, Pinklight, TL and Gengwall for being willing to go over things which may be quite basic for you in order to help me understand things better.
I can understand the dangers of trying to bring in too much assumed outside information to help to explain the text.
I can understand that if we stick with what is written in 1 Tim 2:11-15, and stick with the grammar that is there, my suggestions so far for connecting v11-15 with the rest of the chapter, and for getting past the problem that many have in seeing v11,12 as dealing with a particular woman and a particular man have failed. Thanks for being willing to hear them and correct me. It is much better getting things sorted out here amongst friends than in some other less loving environments!