Craig

Having said what I think v11-15 means apart from the context, I will just elaborate a little on #146 and #163 in case the context should alter the way I think about v11-15.
In the particular school (in Australia this refers to 4-18 year olds) classroom mentioned in #163, there has become quite a problem with several of the girls involved in punching boys.
The principal writes to the teacher some general things that will help with the problem (v1-7)
Some of the boys have become quite angry over this punching behavior. (v8)
The girls doing the punching are dressing with boxing gloves appropriate to deliver a good punch (v9,10)
Then the principal writes in his letter to the teacher
“a girl needs to learn quietly. I do not permit a girl to punch a boy. But she can remain in the class, if they continue to behave appropriately”.
Now whereas I would naturally take this as described in #163, could the context imply that the principal is actually using these words to be discussing a wider phenomena in the classroom than just one girl and one boy. Could he mean
“a girl (any girl) needs to learn quietly. I do not permit a girl (any girl, and there are several involved in your class) to punch a boy (any boy- and this means that it is wrong for any girl to punch one boy, and so would certainly be wrong if any girl punched several boys). But she (any girl who is punching a boy, whether this is just one boy or several) can remain in the class, if they (any girl who is doing the punching together with any boy she is punching) continue to behave appropriately”.
I am not sure whether my grammar skills are good enough to know if this is possible. It sounds possible to me, given the context.
Problems I see if I read 1 Tim 2 this way
1 If “the woman” in v14 can only possibly refer to a particular Ephesian woman as Pinklight has raised- but still needs further proof to me.
2 It assumes that the context of ch 2 is dealing with the same problem as v11-15 and this is hard to prove.