Women Erased/Demoted in Many Bible Translations PART TWO

Why Weren't There Women Priests in the Old Testament?

Some people think that God's will is patriarchy because the Old Testament says only men are to be priests.  If that's the case, then we must also include the fact that God only allowed genetic Jews to be priests, and only those from the tribe of Levi, etc.  

While it is true that the Old Testament priests were to be male, Jew, and from Levi, that is no more stating patriarchy as God's will than stating that leaders in the church today can only be Levitical Jews.

There are two main reasons why the priests in the Old Testament were to be male:

1) The pagan religions around the Jews often had female priests, and as part of that pagan priesthood there was sexual rituals, some of them like those done in modern day Wicca today.  By going against the norm and having only male priests it reduced the assumption that rites would involve sexual acts.  I say "reduce" and not "eradicate," because some religions had both female and male priests and sexual acts, including homosexuality with male priests as part of certain pagan religious acts.

2) Blood is a major theme throughout both the Old and New Testaments.  Abel's blood cried out, for example.  The Bible also teaches (easier to see in the Hebrew) that the soul is located in the blood.  When any blood is shed, it resonates that person's soul, which includes what they've done, said, and thought throughout their whole life - the blood cries out in many ways.  To learn more about the mechanics of blood spirituality and its transdimensional power, please see my study Power in the Blood.  Now, relate blood to women - during the years of fertility, women menstruate.  Every time they shed their blood, the blood cries out.  Menstruation in the Old Testament was considered ceremonially unclean, because shed blood was crying out sins of the person.  Thus any shed blood (menstrual or not) from either gender was an unclean event, and would remain unclean until that blood be redeemed, and that did not occur until God became a human, and shed that human blood to redeem humanity's sinful blood which carries our soul.  Thus, in the Old Testament, women could not serve as priests, because it would all have to be scheduled around each woman's menstrual cycle, and the priesthood was a FULLTIME endeavor.

As we can see, women not being priests in the Old Testament had to do with being set apart from the pagan religions in that region, and also because of blood spirituality.  Under the New Covenant, both male and female may serve as church leaders, because the menstrual blood is now ceremonially clean through the shed blood of Christ. The soul in the saved blood cries out "redeemed, redeemed!"

We do see women serving in religious positions in the Old Testament, just not as Levitical priests.

Women in Religious Positions in the Old Testament

The Old Testament shows women in different religious positions.

Women sang laments:  

2 Chronicles 35:25 NRSVue
Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments.

Women could sing and lead in praise and worship:

Exodus 15:20 NRSVue
Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.

Women were also evangelists in the Old Testament.  However, this is one of the things that is erased/hidden in some English Bible translations.  The women evangelists are mentioned in Psalm 68:11, but some Bible translations don't reveal this fact:

Psalm 68:11 NIV 1984
The Lord announced the word, and great was the company of those who proclaimed it.

Who proclaimed the word?  Let us turn to our Hebrew/English interlinear Bibles to see.  The word "company" above is in the Hebrew feminine form - not the masculine, and not the neuter.  Thus the 2011 edition of the NIV translated this verse more accurately:

Psalm 68:11 NIV 2011
The Lord announces the word, and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng.

Women also served at the entrance of the tent of meeting, which was the place where the priests served, where God manifested in Presence, and around which the people would gather:

Exodus 38:8 NRSVue
He made the basin of bronze with its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Samuel 2:22 NRSVue
Now Eli was very old. He heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and how they lay with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

We are all probably familiar with reading in the Bible about how Samuel's mother dedicated Samuel to the Lord.  After Samuel was weaned from breastfeeding by his mother, she brought him to the temple of God, and he lived there and grew up there, and served the Lord his whole life.

What's often obscured in English Bible translations, is that women could also be dedicated to the Lord and serve in the temple for their whole lives.  We see this in Anna at the opening of the New Testament:

Luke 2:36-38 NRSVue
There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day. At that moment she came and began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Anna was:

1) A Prophet
2) After being widowed after only seven years of marriage, she dedicated the rest of her life in serving in the temple of God
3) She was also a woman evangelist, like the ones in Psalm 68:11, as we see she spoke about Jesus (a child at that time) to ALL who were looking for redemption.  Thus she was also a PREACHER.

Back to the Old Testament, we read about Samuel being dedicated to God and serving in the temple of God for his whole life, but there is also an account of a woman who was dedicated to the Lord and served God her whole life, also.  Most people aren't familiar with this account, because it is obscured in most English Bible translations:

Judges 11:30-31 NKJV
And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, “If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands, then it will be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the people of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

What first met him when he came home? - His daughter.  Thus, he had to do what he vowed, and thus afterward, a custom of the daughters of Israel was born:

Judges 11:40 NKJV
the daughters of Israel went four days each year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

However, when we turn to our interlinear Bibles, we see that the word "lament" in the above in the Hebrew is the word תָּנָה taw-naw', which means to talk, speak, or tell something, as we see properly translated in Judges 5:11, were it says "there they shall rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD."  "rehearse" is taw-naw'.

Next, take a look at verses 30-31 in the interlinear, and did you notice that "and" in the phrase "and I will offer it up as a burnt offering" is not there in the Hebrew?  There is no word there, so translators guess, and often put in "and." Another 100% viable option is to instead say "or."

When we have "or" there, and when taw-naw' is correctly translated, we find out Jephthah did not offer up his daughter as a burnt human sacrifice; burnt human sacrifices are condemned in the Bible.  Instead, he dedicated her to the Lord, like Samuel's mother dedicated him to the Lord.

Some translations translate this correctly so that we can see it:

Judges 11:30-31 LSV
And Jephthah vows a vow to YHWH and says, “If You give the sons of Ammon into my hand at all—then it has been, that which comes out from the doors of my house at all to meet me in my turning back in peace from the sons of Ammon—it has been for YHWH, or I have offered up a burnt-offering for it.” 

Judges 11:40 LSV
from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year. 

Women Could be Lay Priests in the Old Testament

While women, and also men who were not of the tribe of Levi could not serve as Temple Levitical Priests, anyone, regardless of genetic heritage (including gentiles who had previously converted to Judaism), and regardless of gender, could be a Lay Priest for a chosen amount of time. Lay Priests could not do the official acts in the temple, but nonetheless were consecrated and set apart for God.  The Bible calls these types of Lay Priests Nazarites, and the Bible is very clear that either gender could be a Nazarite:

Numbers 6:1-3a NRSVue
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When either men or women make a special vow, the vow of a nazirite, to separate themselves to the Lord, they shall...

As we see in the Old Testament, women could serve as:

-Singers of laments

-Singers of praise and worship, including leading in praise and worship

-Prophet

-Evangelists and Preachers

-Dedicated to serve in the temple like Samuel was

and

-Lay Priests, which were Nazarites

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Women Erased/Demoted in Many Bible Translations PART ONE

You don't have to be fluent in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Koine Greek to do mental pattern recognition, and notice something odd in the interlinear Bibles: Words that are translated properly when referring to men or God, but are suddenly translated differently when referring to women, and in some cases, women's names being changed to men's names.

This treatise is not at all exhaustive, but my intention in writing this is to show you a sampling of what seems to be women being erased or demoted in many Bible translations.

Let's Start at the Beginning...

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
The word translated "man" above is the Hebrew אָדָ֛ם which in English is Adam.  Adam means "human being."  This first human is not a male, nor is the first human a female.  The first human is BOTH genders, just as God is:

Genesis 1:27 CEB
God created humanity in God’s own image, in the divine image God created them, male and female God created them.

The first human possessed the chromosomes for both female and male. The first human was male and female, which God also is - "in the divine image God created them, male and female God created them."

NOTE:  Most of the time in both Old and New Testaments when God is mentioned with male pronouns such as he/him, if you look in your interlinear Bible, you'll see there are quite often no male pronouns for God but rather neuter pronouns or no pronouns at all.  God is depicted as male - such as the Father of Jesus, but God is also depicted as female - where the Bible repeatedly speaks of God giving birth to us, and nursing us as a mother does her infant.  It's also important to keep in mind that God's name is Yahweh, and as some Bible scholars will point out, it very well may be that Yah is feminine and Weh is masculine.  And as for the Holy Spirit, in Hebrew grammar it's feminine, and in Greek grammar it's neuter.  And let us not forget that Jesus, who was born male, was born from a woman, and not from a woman and a man.  Further, Jesus in His pre-incarnate state was Lady Wisdom. 

What about dominion?  Was dominion/dominance given to the male side of the first human? No, we see that the first human, which was both female and male was given dominion over the earth, thus both women and men equally have authority.  Even the ESV for Genesis 1:26 says "let them have dominion."  This is both the male and female; not just the male, and not just the female.  They are one.  

The human got to name all the animals, we see as we keep reading in Genesis.  This human (Hebrew Adam - meaning human being) has still not been referred to as a single gender. The only gender designation the first human still has at the point is both male and female.

It was not a male human who named all the animals, it was the male and female in one human who named them.  Thus, the first female human named all the animals just as much as the first male human did.

In fact, the entity that retains the name "Adam" didn't get referred to as just the male gender until after the female half (not rib or piece of a side) was separated off of the male half.

The first human, which was both genders, saw the animals each had a counterpart - a male and female. This human wanted a separate counterpart as well.  Thus God then put the human into a sleep and divided the DNA and chromosomes into a male half and a female half.  When Adam united with Eve in the first ever marriage, Adam was literally marrying himself - his female half.  Thus why both Old and New Testaments teach this:

Genesis 2:24 NRSVue
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Mark 10:8 NRSVue
and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

When a woman and man marry they are to spiritually be one person again, as the first human was literally female and male in one person.  This is where we get the saying in referring to our spouse as our "other half."

Notice also Genesis 2:24 teaches the opposite of patriarchy.  In patriarchy the woman is to leave her family to be with her husband.  But Genesis 2:24 teaches the opposite.  It teaches that the man leaves his family to join his wife. This too is reiterated in the New Testament such as in the below.

Mark 10:7 NRSVue
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife

Is the Wife the Husband's Helper?

Genesis 2:18 NRSVue
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”
The word translated as "helper" above is the Hebrew word עֵ֖זֶר which in English letters is ‘ê·zer.  This word doesn't mean a person who is a servile servant to another who has authority over them.  It means a type of helper who is someone's HERO or RECUER.  This Hebrew word is in the Old Testament multiple times, and most of the time is used of God.  For example:

Deuteronomy 33:26 NRSVue
There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, majestic through the clouds.

"Help" above is  ‘ê·zer - the exact same word used in the above Genesis 2:18. Also note in that verse that it says "it is not good that the man should be alone."  This is not a male term in the Hebrew here.  "Man" here is the Hebrew אָדָ֛ם which in English is Adam.  Remember, the Hebrew word Adam means "human being."  Thus the CEB translates this portion of the verse more accurately:

Genesis 2:18 CEB
Then the Lord God said, “It’s not good that the human (אָדָ֛ם  - Adam - human) is alone. I will make him a helper (עֵ֖זֶר - ‘ê·zer one who helps in the form of rescuing - to be a hero) that is perfect for him.”

It's only after Eve that Adam was directly referred to only in the male gender.

The first human was not a man.  The first human was not a woman. The first human was both, just as God is both.  Eve was not created to be under Adam's authority.  Eve was Adam's rescuer.

The Garden Deception

If you read the account of the "fall" carefully in Genesis 3, then please notice that the serpent went to Eve, and not to Adam.  Why?  Eve herself was never told directly by God not to eat of the forbidden fruit.  She got the message from Adam. Adam was present during the conversation between Eve and serpent, and he never said anything.  When Eve partook of the forbidden fruit, the New Testament calls her deceived.  Adam watched her partake and didn't stop her, and then upon her recommendation, he partook, knowing that he was violating a command given him directly from God.  Thus the New Testament attributes sin to Adam, and not to Eve.  Eve was deceived, but Adam knowingly disobeyed.

This is one of the reasons Jesus was born male.  The New Testament calls Jesus the Second or Last Adam, because through Adam sin entered the world, and through Jesus - the Last Adam, sin is paid for and we are redeemed if we so choose to accept the free gift of Christ dying to pay for our sins.

Many read Genesis 3:16 as a doctrine teaching that men are supposed to dominate women:

Genesis 3:16 NRSVue
To the woman he said, “I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

What does "your desire shall be for your husband" even mean?  We have a phrase almost identical to this in the very next chapter.  Let's take a look:

Genesis 4:7 NRSVue
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

Sin desires to have Cain, but Cain is advised to master sin.

Genesis 3:16 is not a prescription or a doctrine we are being told to follow.  Rather it is a description of part of the curse that is a repercussion of the fall.  Eve will desire to dominate her husband, but her husband will instead rule her.  If we were to put this onto all men and women then what we have is merely the battle of the sexes.

Most cultures throughout history, and still the majority today are patriarchal.  There have been some matriarchal/matrilineal ones, however.  For example, the Queen of Sheba in the Bible.  Her kingdom at that time was matrilineal.  Also, before "white man" invaded that Native American Indians, many tribes were matriarchal/matrilineal. The Cherokee were, for example.

Genesis 3:16 is describing the repercussions of the curse, not giving us a doctrine to follow.  Men using this verse to say they can rule over women would thus also mean that women are not allowed to receive pain relief during childbirth "I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great," and that men who farm are not allowed to use modern implements to help them, but must continue doing it the way it was done back then, by the sweat of their brow - "by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread" from verse 19.  Further, verse 16 doesn't say men will rule over women, but that women will desire to control men and men would rule women - sexism was born here.  It was a curse, and not a plan.  The command has always been "And let them (both genders) have dominion" as per Genesis 1:26.  

The battle of the sexes of 3:16 is a description.  People of God are called to overcome the curse of sin and follow God repeatedly in the Old Testament, via righteous living and proper sacrifices.  In the New Testament we are told that Jesus conquered the Law of Sin and Death for us.  Righteous living has never commanded one gender to be in charge of the other gender.  God's prescription has always been a biarchy - "And let them (both genders) have dominion."

Words, Sentences and Verses Missing From the King James Bible

Many cults, such as most IFB and NIFB "churches" are "KJV Only."  One of their major arguments for the King James Bible is they claim other translations remove verses from the Bible, while the KJV retains them.  This is not true.  The "missing verses and words" that the KJV supposedly retains have been shown to be redundancies or interpolations.  The KJV was translated from a limited amount of ancient texts, but now there are more ancient and more accurate texts available, which has shown us that in fact the KJV itself is missing words, passages, and full sentences. Furthermore, the KJV "removed" stuff from the older Wycliff Bible.  Thus, let’s start by taking a look  at the Wycliff translation from 1382:

Wycliff	King James Version
2 Sameul 21:19 Also the third battle was in Gob against [the] Philistines; in which battle a man given of God, the son of a forest, and a(n) (em)broiderer, a man of Bethlehem, smote (the brother of) Goliath of Gath, whose spear shaft was as a beam of webs.	2 Sameul 21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Psalm 14:3 All bowed away, (al)together they be made unprofitable; none is that doeth good, none is till to one. The throat of them is an open sepulchre, they did guilefully with their tongues; the venom of snakes is under their lips. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet be swift to shed out blood. Sorrow and cursedness is in the ways of them, and they knew not the way of peace; the dread of God is not before their eyes.	Psalm 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
John 7:29 I know him, and if I say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar; but I know him, for of him I am, and he sent me.	John 7:29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
Acts 14:7 And they preached there the gospel, and all the multitude was moved together in the teaching of them. Paul and Barnabas dwelt at Lystra.	Acts 14:7 And there they preached the gospel.
Romans 4:23 And it is not written only for him, that it was areckoned [reckoned] to him to rightwiseness,	Romans 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

There are many more, but the above is enough of a sampling to show my point.

There are words and phrases in modern versions which are missing in the KJV.  Such as:

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition	King James Version
Deuteronomy 32:43 Praise, O heavens, his people; worship him, all you gods! For he will avenge the blood of his children and take vengeance on his adversaries; he will repay those who hate him and cleanse the land for his people.”	Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
1 Samuel 10:27 But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace. Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.	1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held his peace.
1 Samuel 11:1 About a month later, Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”	1 Samuel 11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
Psalm 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words and gracious in all his deeds.	Psalm 145:13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
John 1:18 No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.	John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
John 14:14 If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.	John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Acts 4:25 it is you who said by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant:‘Why did the gentiles rage and the peoples imagine vain things?	Acts 4:25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Acts 16:7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;	Acts 16:7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.

 There are plenty more, but the above sampling suffices as an example.

As more and more older manuscripts have been found, we’ve been getting more accurate Bibles in the English. For example, the very old Dead Sea Scrolls corrected something that never made sense in the KJV, but now makes perfect sense:

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition	King James Version
Deuteronomy 32:8 8 When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;	Deuteronomy 32:8 8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

There were no “children of Israel” at the Tower of Babel.  They didn’t exist yet.  But “the gods” existed as God’s Divine Council.  This makes other passages make sense, such as Daniel 10:13.

If you are looking for an extremely reliable Bible translation, I'd highly recommend the New Revised Stardard Version updated edition - NRSVue.

The Damaging and Heretical Danver's Statement and Why it's Dangerous for Women and Girls

Below are a few excerpts from the sexist and dangerous Danver's Statement that all Southern Baptist pastors are required to agree to and sign each year, to stay in the SBC:

"the increasing promotion given to feminist egalitarianism with accompanying distortions" 

MY RESPONSE: Feminist Egalitarianism literally means: women who stand up for the rights and equality of all races, genders, and social levels.  It's not a "distortion" to fight for all to be free and to have the same rights.  It's largely because of Feminist Egalitarianism that our nation no longer practices the abhorrent black slave trade.  Women decided to start holding meetings about how to free slaves, but when they tried to do this, men stood in their way, and stated that women have no rights and to go home.  Women then fought for their own freedom so that they could fight to help free the slaves.  Also note here that the church denomination(s) that are behind the Danver's Statement were the denomination(s) that fought to keep slavery.  This is largely why there are Southern Baptists, vs Northern Baptists.  Northern Baptists were against slavery and are egalitarian.  Southern Baptists were for slavery, and were and are patriarchal.  Some of the same Scriptures Southern Baptists used to support slavery are the same ones they now use to push down women.

"Adam's headship in marriage was established by God before the Fall, and was not a result of sin"

MY RESPONSE: Wrong.  "Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion"  Genesis 1:26a NRSVue

"In the home, the husband's loving, humble headship tends to be replaced by domination or passivity; the wife's intelligent, willing submission tends to be replaced by usurpation or servility.  In the church, sin inclines men toward a worldly love of power or an abdication of spiritual responsibility, and inclines women to resist limitations on their roles or to neglect the use of their gifts in appropriate ministries."

MY RESPONSE: This is classic eisegesis.  Headship, at the time the New Testament was written, when used symbolically didn't mean "leadership" or "authority."  It meant SOURCE.  The Man is The Source of The Woman (1 Cor. 11, Eph. 5) is referring to how Eve was made from half of Adam.  That's why the Bible then goes on to say: "For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman, but all things come from God."  1 Corinthians 11:12 NRSVue

Thus, every Christian is under the headship of GOD.  Saying that the husband has 'headship' over the wife is blasphemous.

"Both Old and New Testaments also affirm the principle of male headship in the family and in the covenant community"

MY RESONSE: Incorrect. Both Testaments affirm that that Eve came out of half of Adam. Adam is not mentioned as the male gender in the Hebrew until AFTER Eve comes out of HALF of him (not just a rib or part of a side).  The word "Adam" literally means "Human."  And recall that symbolic "headship" in this context means SOURCE, not leadership.  Thus why the Bible reminds us that since after Adam, every human came from a woman - "so man comes through woman, but all things come from God." 1 Corinthians 11:12b NRSVue  The head of both women and men is none other than God.

"wives should forsake resistance to their husbands' authority and grow in willing, joyful submission to their husbands' leadership"

MY RESPONSE:  There is only ONE place in the Bible where it says that husbands have authority over their wives, and it is this:  "For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does."  1 Corinthians 7:4 NRSVue
The husband has authority over his wife just as much as the wife has authority over her husband.

As for submission, the Bible is clear that husband and wife are to submit to EACH OTHER:  "Being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ."  -Ephesians 5:21 NRSVue  

"Wives, likewise, submit to your own husbands... Husbands, likewise, submit by living with your wife in ways that honor her" 1 Peter 3:1a and 7a CEB

"some governing and teaching roles within the church are restricted to men"

MY RESPONSE:  There's not one place in the Bible that says that.  Furthermore, the first preacher mentioned by name in the New Testament of the Bible is female - Pheobe. 1Tim. 5:16-18 is about widowed female pastors.   1 Tim 3:11 is instruction specifically to female deacons.  Titus 2:3-4 are instructions to female teaching elders.  Further in the Scriptures are female pastors: Chloe, Nympha, Aphia, Prisca, Lydia, Mary the mother of John Mark, Euodia, Syntyche, Kyria, and more. A major prominent apostle was a woman named Junia.  Who anointed Jesus as King, following the Old Testament way of anointing kings?  A woman.   Who were the very first people to preach Christ's resurrection?  Women.  Who are the mighty throng of evangelists in Psalms?  Women.

The lists of giftings of the Holy Spirit for inside and outside of the church - eg. 1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12 are for BOTH genders.

Patriarchalism/Complementarianism is dangerous and often leads to abuse of women and girls.  Boys raised with these false teachings such as the poison in the Danver's Statement, start to view girls and women as people who must be led. They think they have authority over females.  Statistically, 75% of CHRISTIAN boys and men view pornography - which is about the man's pleasure and the woman being an object to use for that pleasure.  Here we have the perfect storm - pornography says women are sex objects, and Complementarianism says that men have authority over women. And now we see case after case after case after case of prominent complementarian "Christian" men going to jail for sexually abusing girls and women.  Just look at the Duggar family as a glaring example of the type of damage heresies like the Danver's Statement is doing.