Pauline texts have often been used to silence, marginalize, and even abuse women in the church and society. In Encountering God in Tyrannical Texts, Frances Taylor Gench provides sound ways for professional and lay readers to critically think about these hard texts with current reason and wisdom as it relates to women. By providing the tools to tackle difficult texts, Gench guides readers in thinking about scriptural authority in insightful and even challenging ways. Encountering God in Tyrannical Texts represents a significant shift in feminist biblical scholarship that focus on questions of biblical interpretation and authority that emerge in connection with texts that have proved oppressive in the lives of Christian women, circumscribing their ministries.