Marg Mowczko

Hi Cheryl,

Lot’s of compelling arguments here. I also am inclined to believe that the woman in 1 Timothy 2:12 was “a woman”. (Which is what it says in the Greek of 2:12.)

Have you read “A Semantic Study of ???????? and its Derivatives” by
Albert Wolters. It’s actually a paper on the CBMW site but it links authentein, or more precisely the cognate noun authentes, to Gnosticism. Even Wolters makes a comment in his footnotes about his surprise at the frequency of references to authentes and its Gnostic use in Greek literature.
http://www.cbmw.org/Journal/Vol-11-No-1/A-Semantic-Study-of-authentes-and-its-Derivatives