The making of biblical womanhood

"Why do you think that is?" he asked. The steady stream of hungry students forked around our lunch table, flowing towards the sandwich bar on the left and Instead of telling women to be silent, could it be that Paul was actually telling men that--in the brave new world of Jesus--women were allowed to speak?

Biblical womanhood is a pervasive concept among evangelicals. A new book by historian Beth Allison Barr argues those ideas may be more secular than scriptural.