Rzecz o starszych kobietach. Presbytera i presbytis w listach pasterskich (1 Tm 5,2; Tt 2,3)

• Authors: Rambiert-Kwaśniewska Anna

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The Thing about Aged Women. Presbytera and presbytis in the Pastoral Epistles (1 Tim. 5:2; Tit. 2:3)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The laws associated with aged women in the New Testament usually refer to widows. Two authors of Pastoral Epistles are trying to fill this gap, formulating generic imperatives. What is suprising in these imperatives is the terminology connected with aged women: presbytis (Tit. 2:3) and presbytera (1 Tim. 5:2). The morphological similarity of these terms with the well-known word "presbyter", preaches in a way that one suspects indicates not only age but also function. By analysis of preserved inscriptions - from Ephesus, where Timothy exercised his ministry, and from Crete connected with the Letter to Titus - we come to the conclusion that in local Jewish communities the office of female-presbyters is well known. These monuments shed a new light on the more difficult verses of Pastoral Epistles and pave the way for new interpretation, assuming that groups of aged women were part of the community of elders, or they were leaders. The existence of this practice is also provided by Epiphanius and the 11th Canon of the Synod of Laodicea.

Keywords

old women; function; age; contextualization

• Publisher: Ewangelikalna Wyższa Szkoła Teologiczna we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Theologica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10. Widoki na starość. Interdyscyplinarne studia gerontologiczne
• Pages: 151-160

Contributors

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Rambiert-Kwaśniewska Anna

• Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu