Kay

Mark wrote:”BUt i would also add for myself, the specific culture of the writer. The time when the document was written. The other cultural backdrops- for example with Moses, what is similar/dissimilar with other Ancient Near Eastern sources. All these types of things also help us determine the purpose for writing, the intended audience etc.”

Mark,
Why wouldn’t your above comment also apply to 1Tim.2?

“8 I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing. I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God. A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.”

These were situations with new Christians with plenty yet to learn – obvious by the fact that Paul addresses the men who were dealing with anger issues and doubts and women who weren’t dressing decently. Because of educational restrictions placed on women in that culture they would have much catching up to do.

Are you saying that you do not believe that the prohibition to teach there is related to the very next sentence – “a woman should learn in quietness and full submission”?
A person can not teach what they have not first learned.

Do you believe that vs.15 teaches that women are saved through bearing children?