Memori Hawa dan Regulasi Tubuh Perempuan dalam 1 Timotius 2:8-15
Abstrak
Debate over 1 Timothy 2:8-15 typically centers on verses 11-12, detaching the teaching prohibition from an argument that also regulates clothing, adornment, silence, creation order, Eve's deception, and childbearing. This article examines how the memory of Eve binds modesty, voice, authority, and reproduction into a coherent gender order. Combining historical-critical exegesis, feminist criticism, gender discourse analysis, and intertextual reading of Genesis 2-3, the study analyzes the Greek text in relation to Greco-Roman household structures and the dynamics of the pastoral epistles. Eve functions as regulative memory: a past figure selectively configured to supply a transhistorical foundation for ordering women's bodies. The creation order articulates precedence, Eve's deception links gender to epistemic vulnerability, and childbearing directs women's future toward the household. These are not four separate issues but one politics of the body. Comparison with Genesis and early reception shows this construction is an interpretive choice, not the only implication of Eve's story. The contribution lies in regulative memory as a device explaining how canonical texts naturalize gender order.
Abstrak
Perdebatan atas 1 Timotius 2:8-15 umumnya terpusat pada ayat 11-12, sehingga larangan mengajar terlepas dari rangkaian argumentasi yang juga mengatur pakaian, perhiasan, keheningan, urutan penciptaan, penipuan Hawa, dan kelahiran anak. Artikel ini menelaah bagaimana memori Hawa menyatukan kesopanan, suara, otoritas, dan reproduksi menjadi satu tata gender yang koheren. Dengan memadukan eksegesis historis-kritis, kritik feminis, analisis wacana gender, dan pembacaan intertekstual Kejadian 2-3, penelitian ini memeriksa teks Yunani 1 Timotius 2:8-15 dalam kaitannya dengan struktur rumah tangga Greko-Romawi dan dinamika Surat-Surat Pastoral. Hawa berfungsi sebagai memori regulatif: figur masa lalu yang dikonfigurasi secara selektif untuk memberikan fondasi transhistoris bagi penataan tubuh perempuan. Urutan penciptaan mengartikulasikan presedensi, penipuan Hawa menautkan gender dengan kerentanan epistemik, dan kelahiran anak mengarahkan masa depan perempuan ke dalam rumah tangga. Keempat regulasi itu bukan masalah terpisah, melainkan satu politik tubuh. Perbandingan dengan kejadian dan resepsi awal menunjukkan bahwa konstruksi gender ini merupakan pilihan interpretatif, bukan satu-satunya implikasi dari kisah Hawa. Kontribusinya terletak pada konsep memori regulatif sebagai perangkat untuk menjelaskan bagaimana teks kanonik menaturalisasi tatanan gender.
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