Nobody's Mother Quotes

“Paul is not the one who needs an update—we do, considering that the tools used for interpretation have already been updated. They can help us find where many interpretations of the same texts have varied among those who hold a high view of Scripture.”
― Sandra L. Glahn, Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament

“Ethicist Steven Inrig has noted that the vision presented in 1 Timothy aligns with Paul’s vision elsewhere of a community devoid of rank, one that “actively works to ease or erase separations based on class and power.” In such a gathering, “a slave could be an elder over a master, [and] clothing among men and women could subvert and reinscribe social demarcations of power, class, and worth. In such gatherings the poor or slaves would enter feeling welcome, as their appearance lacked the usual markings that revealed their rank in the social hierarchy.”
― Sandra L. Glahn, Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament