How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

Because this was the world they were living in and the culture of Ephesus.* We also read that these young widows, because they have nothing to do, become “busybodies” who talk “nonsense” (Paul’s word).