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Re: Women be quiet?
I think the reference in 1Tim is to women not asking questions in the assembly. The woman is to learn in silence. This to me implies the assembly. The other reference speaks of a woman asking her husband at home, which supports the idea the woman is not question a teacher during the assembly.
People often project their own modern church experiences onto the bible assuming a NT meeting looks the same as a modern bapto-pentecostal-evangelical church service with its lecture format and theater seating arrangement.
The early church met in homes and teaching involved q and a. Teaching was more of a dialogue than a lecture. This format was familiar to Jews via the synagogue and rabbinic methods of teaching, and familiar (somewhat) to Greeks via the way philosophers taught as well as the method of conducting a symposium. (The symposium was a dinner party which included a discussion and dialogue on some subject after supper. Of course many pagan symposia were characterized by debauchery and wild extravagance but the basic idea of an interactive teaching dialogue was common.)
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