Thomas Schirrmacher argues that from the biblical teaching that man is the head of woman (1 Cor 11: 3) the Corinthians had drawn the false conclusions that in prayer a woman must be veiled (11: 4-6) and a man is forbidden to be veiled (11: 7), and that the wife exists for the husband but not the husband for the wife (11: 8-9). Paul, however, rejected these conclusions and showed in 11: 10-16 why the veiling of women did not belong to God's commandments binding upon all the Christian communities. After stating the thesis and presenting his alternative translation and exposition of 1 Cor 11: 2-16, he considers the difficulties in the text, presents his alternative exposition in detail (in the form of thirteen theses), discusses quotations and irony in 1 Corinthians, and deals with other NT texts about women's clothing and prayer and about the subordination of wives. New Testament Abstracts 39 (1995) 1: 154
Biografie
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher ist Sprecher für Menschenrechte der Weltweiten Evangelischen Allianz und Vorstandsmitglied der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte. Er engagiert sich weltweit für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit.
