Can anyone figure this out?

Question

1 Timmothy 2:12 it says
I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man; she must be silent.
this verse poped up in theology class and we were to take it out of context tell me some of the ways you can take this out of context.

Answer 1

I guess they allow pimpslapping of the women just like the Muslims?

Answer 2

Out of context? The very act of making it a quotation is in itself a taking it from its context and holding it in isolation. This text is extra-pauline and written to a particular community and to a particular language group. If it was not so, why do we not find reference of it in the coptic or the aramaic churches? So it is addressed to a particular community in a specific culture and at a certain time. Communities, norms, cultures and times change over time. Now that you are reading it and isolating it in an English, post-enlightenment world illustrates that it is out of context, apriori, because its readers are not first century Greeks from a hellenised Christian community.