"It is shameful for a woman to speak in church"

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the
saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to
speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they
desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a
woman to speak in church.
(1 Corinthians 14:33-35, ESV)

"DESIRE, RULE"
1. And to your husband shall be your DESIRE. And he shall RULE over you. (Genesis
3:16, LEB)
2. But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its DESIRE is for
you, but you must RULE over it. (Genesis 4:7, LEB)

I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she
is to remain quiet. (1 Timothy 2:12, ESV)

"The one in the middle"

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Those who sanctify themselves and those who cleanse themselves to go into the
gardens after the one in the middle, eating the flesh of swine and detestable
things and rodents together shall come to an end! declares Yahweh. (Isaiah 66:17,
LEB)

Nineveh: the ancient cult city of Ishtar

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If Nineveh were also known as "Babylon" in some circles at that time, the
explanation might account for the extraordinary phrases with which Sennacherib
announced that Nineveh was to be his royal residence:
"Nineveh, the lofty metropolis, the city beloved of Ishtar, inside which all the
rites of gods and goddesses are performed, the everlasting fundament, the eternal
foundation, whose plan was drawn in ancient times with the writing of the
firmament, whose structure was superb, the artistic place, the abode of divine
mysteries, into which had been brought all kinds of skillful craftsmanship, all the
divine ordinances, the secrets of the deep."
Stephanie Dalley: Nineveh, Babylon and the Hanging Gardens: Cuneiform and Classical
Sources Reconciled
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200384

ekallu sa sanina la isu: the "Palace without Rival"

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At the beginning of his reign, Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) moved the capital of the
Assyrian empire from the recently completed city of Dur Sharrukin to Nineveh, the
ancient cult city of Ishtar. There he built a new palace that he called "ekallu sa
sanina la isu", the "Palace without Rival." (John Malcolm Russell: Sennacherib's
"Palace Without Rival" at Nineveh)
http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/110506

Menstruation as an image of impurity in Isaiah, Lamentations and Ezekiel

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1. You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You
will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, Get out!
(Isaiah 30:22, NET)
2. And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a
menstrual cloth,
(Isaiah 64:6, LEB)
3. Her menstrual flow has soiled her clothing; (Lamentations 1:9, NET)
4. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her
monthly period. (Ezekiel 36:17, NET)

Menstruation as an image of impurity in Isaiah, Lamentations and Ezekiel (Isaiah

30:22, Isaiah 64:6, Lamentations 64:6, Ezekiel 36:17)

Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution

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The present collection of essays is an effort to return to a cultural analysis of
menstruation, looking at the vital liquids that each culture has to deal with and
represent in some way. Its title, Blood Mysteries, highlights the connections
between menstruation and ideas of blood sacrifice, diseases of the blood, gendered
difference, and cultural difference. Because blood, that fluid which keeps us
alive, appears as a religious mystery to many people, Bengali Baul singers may
ingest menstrual blood, Balinese housewives may use it to place spells on their
husbands, Yupik women may cover themselves with fake menstrual blood to escape
rape, and Kodi textile dyers may group indigo dyeing and herbal fertility
treatments together as the "blue arts" of the occult. Menstrual blood can be
conceived as simultaneously polluting and purifying, as a wound and a normal sign
of good health.
Janet Hoskins: "Introduction: Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i387862

Special Issue: Blood Mysteries: Beyond Menstruation as Pollution

https://www.jstor.org/stable/i387862

Please read 2 Samuel 12:8 and Ezekiel 23