In our biblical interpretations we hardly ever side with the voices that were silenced and excluded from the biblical text itself.

This book dares to give voice to these marginal groups. To achieve this goal, Manuel Villalobos has selected texts from the pastorals dealing with issues of masculinity, otherness, sexuality, gender, power, race, economy, use and abuse of religion. Why are women ordered to be quiet and forbidden to teach? Why does it highlight the masculine qualities that bishops, priests, and deacons must possess to rule the house of God with authority? The author of this work answers these and other questions, making a new and provocative reading of the Pastoral Epistles “from the other side”.