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A Zinger from Winger

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Whether you agree with Mike Winger's conclusions or not, this is an astonishing piece of work: a eleven and a half hour video on 1 Timothy 2:11-15, the result of a whole year's research, with hundreds of notes, dozens of citations from ancient sources, copious interaction with secondary literature, and over 200,000 YouTube views in the first week or so.

Admittedly some sections are stronger than others. His first half hour contained a number of errors - a misidentified reference here, an inaccurate ancient term there, and the like - and in several places he makes some remarks about the methods and motives of egalitarian interpreters which I found uncharitable. I was surprised that he didn’t interact with Bruce Winter on the “new Roman women,” since it appears so relevant to his case. And I have a number of points of outright disagreement with him, including on application.

But much of it is excellent. His monster section on authenteo (have/exercise/assume authority), between hours four and eight, is a remarkable deep dive into the New Testament’s most difficult word, complete with careful analysis of ancient sources, a survey of translation and interpretation, fresh scholarship on one of the key texts, interaction with the key secondary literature, a good bit of debunking, and lucid presentation. The short version of that section: 1 Timothy 2:12 means pretty much exactly what it looks like it means in contemporary English versions, and attempts to escape that conclusion have not been successful. Which is nice.

Anyway: hats off to him.

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