Women, Salvation, and Childbearing

“Kenneth Waters offers a fresh reading of a difficult text that opens new possibilities for understandings of it, the author of the Pastoral Epistles, and even the workings of the churches 1 Timothy addresses. The arguments Waters provides demand the attention of all serious interpreters of this letter. Waters further calls interpreters of biblical texts, and of this one in particular, to take responsibility for the effects their interpretations have on people’s lives.”


—Jerry L. Sumney, Lexington Theological Seminary





“This work is clearly written, has thoroughly researched both the primary and secondary sources, and reaches persuasive, nuanced answers to difficult questions. It is just the type of erudition one might expect from Waters. Therefore, I recommend Waters’s book highly to those persons interested in the social history of Pauline Christianity in general and women within the Pauline tradition in particular.”


—Thomas B. Slater, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, emeritus