Aida Besancon Spencer

Aída Besançon Spencer (born 1947) is a Dominican-American New Testament professor and Presbyterian minister.

Career Spencer is Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. She has written on The Apostle Paul, Paul's Literary Style, Women in Christianity and the New Testament from a Hispanic perspective.

On the hermeneutical issues of 1 Timothy 2:12, she and Wheaton New Testament scholar Gilbert Bilezikian have argued that the author's prohibition on women speaking in the congregation was only intended to be a temporary response to women who were teaching error.

Personal life Spencer was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Frederick H. (a comptroller) and Aída (a business entrepreneur and homemaker; maiden name, Guzman) Besançon. She is married to William David Spencer, who is a writer, minister, and educator. They cowrite the blog Applying Biblical Truths Today since 2012. They began (2009) and edit the Africanus Journal and the House of Prisca and Aquila series. Their son, Stephen William Spencer, is the director of programming at Salem public access cable station.

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