S2 Ep1018: #1018 - An Egalitarian View of Women in Ministry in Light of the Greco-Roman Context: Dr. Lynn Cohick
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
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Lynn is one of my favorite New Testament scholars! She serves as Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs of Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. She also teaches New Testament and leads the development of DMin and MA programs in women's studies, and the Women's Center for Leadership at Northern Seminary. Lynn received her bachelor’s degree from Messiah College in Grantham, PA, and my Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. She’s written several books including in depth commentaries on Philippians, Ephesians, and Romans
In this conversation, we talk about her book Women in the World of the Earliest Christians, which talks about the 1st century Roman context and its illumination on certain New Testament passages about women; specifically, 1 Timothy 2.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology. In the ROM, I guess today is Dr. Lynne |
| 0:04.4 | Kohick, one of my favorite New Testament scholars. She presently serves as provost and dean of academic |
| 0:10.7 | affairs at Northern seminary and Illinois. She also teaches New Testament there and also leads |
| 0:17.2 | the development of a demon and MA program in women's studies and the women's center for leadership |
| 0:22.9 | at Northern seminary. She has her PhD from University of Pennsylvania in New Testament and Christian |
| 0:28.7 | origins and has written a few books including the one we discuss on this podcast, which is women |
| 0:35.6 | in the world of the earliest Christians illuminating ancient ways of life. I wanted Lynne to talk about |
| 0:41.3 | how her understanding of the first century Greco-Roman context of which she's an expert in |
| 0:47.0 | and understanding women in that context, how that informs and illuminates some of these |
| 0:52.5 | statements about women in the New Testament that have become quite controversial. First Timothy |
| 0:56.8 | to First Corinthians 11. We spend most of our time on First Corinthians 2 and the latter half |
| 1:00.3 | of this podcast. Lynne will be out in Boise, Idaho, speaking at the pre-conference of the exiles and |
| 1:06.9 | Babylon conference, March 23rd, 2023 here in Boise, Idaho. The pre-conference is all about women |
| 1:13.2 | in a church leadership. I've got two scholars on the egalitarian side, Scott McKnight, Lynne Kohick, |
| 1:18.4 | and then two scholars on the complimentary inside Gary Bershiers and Sydney Park. It's going to be |
| 1:23.7 | fantastic. So all the information is on the website theology in the rod dot com. So please welcome |
| 1:29.2 | back to the show. The one and only, Dr. Lynne Kohick. Dr. Lynne Kohick, thank you for coming back |
| 1:43.5 | on the show. It's great to chat with you as always, Preston. Thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:48.2 | So the book that I just recently read of yours is women in the world of the earliest Christians, |
| 1:52.6 | illuminating ancient ways of life, which is a 300 plus page book on women in the Greco-Roman, |
| 1:59.9 | but mainly I think first, well, first century largely. And it is a very in-depth but clear scholarly |
| 2:07.0 | work on women in the first century. I guess, let me lead with a really specific question. I would |
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