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As a Bible teacher experiencing infertility and pregnancy loss, I read Paul's statement that "she will be saved through childbearing" (1 Tim 2:15 NRSV) and was told it meant women (including me) needed to redirect teaching gifts away from the church and toward our own children-which I lacked. In making this statement about childbearing, was Paul laying out a universal truth rooted in creation order, or was he drawing on the Genesis creation story to correct a local one in Ephesus, where Timothy the recipient of his words-resided? The answer lies in understanding the spiritual and cultural context, part of which Acts 19 provides. The goddess Artemis had a stranglehold on Ephesus at the time of the earliest Christians. So, who was Artemis of the Ephesians at the time of Paul and Timothy? The answer is essential to determining a biblical anthropology of woman: Who is woman and what did God make her to do?