Lin

“refering to your link #13, where you claimed that the sadducees seemed very interested in authority, and im assuming you are applying that to complementarians. Just a few points.

1. The text you sighted actually has nothing to do with authority and thus your conclusion of authority is a bad one.”

I agree with you on what that passage was about. But keep in mind that women were nothing unless they could produce sons. God regulated this in the law because of sinful man and a woman’s worth being about producing male heirs. “Widow” in Hebrew means no voice. Widows were cast outs in that patriarchal society so God made provisions for them to be taken care of in the law