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La Bibbia Insegna Uguaglianza di Uomo e Donna
I am delighted that Angela Rolston has made available an Italian translation of the entire text, including footnotes, of my article summarizing the argument of Man and Woman, One in Christ, "The Bible Teaches the Equal Standing of Man and Woman" published in Priscilla...
Phil’s Chapter on “Headship” in Mutual by Design
This is Phil's chapter "What-about Headship? From Hierarchy to Equality" in Mutual by Design: A better Model for Christian Marriage (ed. Elizabeth Beyer; Minneapolis: CBE International, 2017). It shows that Paul's longest passage about marriage, 1 Corinthians 7,...
Phil’s lectures at the BEAcon (Biblical Equity Africa Conference) in Kenya
It was a great joy to give several lectures to about 170 highly receptive African leaders celebrating the inauguration of The Africa Centre for Biblical Equity at St. Paul's University, Kenya. My lectures were on: "Does the Bible Teach Patriarchy?" "Women, Veiled and...
NTS site: P.B. Payne “Vaticanus distigme-obelos” is its “Most read” article
The home page of New Testament Studies at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-testament-studies states: "Most read Article: Vaticanus Distigme-obelos Symbols Marking Added Text, Including 1 Corinthians 14.34-5 Philip B. Payne New Testament Studies,...
Discovery of a Ninth Distigme-obelos Symbol in Codex Vaticanus
I am grateful to Richard Fellows for pointing out to me that there is a ninth instance of the distigme-obelos symbol in Codex Vaticanus at Mark 6:11 (1285B) besides the eight identified in my New Testament Studies article. It both extends into the margin farther and...
More Positive Reviews of my new article on Codex Vaticanus in New Testament Studies
My latest article in New Testament Studies has been extensively discussed in mainline and academic media following a major article about it in The Telegraph Sept. 17 by Olivia Rudgard, Social and Religious Affairs Correspondent, "Bible passage used to stop women...
Positive Reviews of my new article on Codex Vaticanus in New Testament Studies
I am delighted to make available with twelve color photographs: "Vaticanus Distigme-obelos Symbols Marking Added Text, Including 1 Corinthians 14.34-5" New Testament Studies 63.4 (2017) 604-625. Paul Canart, probably the world's leading expert on Codex Vaticanus,...
Six Groundbreaking Discoveries in my new article on Codex Vaticanus in New Testament Studies
I am delighted to make available a summary of Six Groundbreaking Discoveries detailed in "Vaticanus Distigme-obelos Symbols Marking Added Text, Including 1 Corinthians 14.34-5" New Testament Studies 63.4 (2017) 604-625. This summary also contains links to 25...
Chi-square Data Confirming that the Eight Bars with Characteristic Features in Vaticanus are not simply Paragraphoi but Mark Blocks of Added Text
I am delighted that New Testament Studies 63 (2017) 604-625 is publishing my study, "Vaticanus Distigme-obelos Symbols Marking Added Text, Including 1 Corinthians 14.34-5" with twelve colour photographs, downloadable free in September 2017 from...
Phil’s Whitworth PowerPoint download
The following link shows you Phil Payne's PowerPoint for his talk, "Why do Women and Gender Studies Matter for a Christian University?" It shows that the Bible does not teach twelve allegedly biblical reasons against the equality of man and woman. Payne Whitworth...
Hear or Read my Talk at Whitworth University March 21, 2017
Whitworth University in Spokane, WA, has invited me to give two public talks with discussion, a coffee time with honors students, and three meals with faculty members, including a faculty dinner with a discussion on "The Meaning of Biblical Equality." The first public...
圣经教导男女平等 尾注加译版 Chinese translation summarizing Payne’s book
I am delighted to make available a complete Chinese translation, including end notes, of my article summarizing the central argument of Man and Woman, One in Christ: "The Bible Teaches the Equal Standing of Man and Woman" Priscilla Papers 29 number 1 (Winter 2015)...
Phenomenal response from Assemblies of God Conference
The 50+ ordained women who attended the Assemblies of God Conference yesterday were wonderfully responsive and full of outstanding questions. Vicki Judd, who led the conference emailed me, "It was a joy and an honor to have you teach today. The feedback from our...
Updated Bibliography, Phil to give 4 lectures at Conference June 11
I am delighted to announce that an updated 270 page Bibliography to Man and Woman, One in Christ is available to view under Publications: Bibliography and that I will be presenting four lectures tomorrow, June 10, in Snoqualmie, WA, to ordained women in the Assemblies...
pbpayne.com has been updated
We found and removed the invisible content inserted into pbpayne.com in order to boost another site's Google ranking. We regenerated the whole site with the lastest version of Word Press to increase security. Google has reindexed pbpayne.com and found no security...