Thank you for your comments, John, as we together as the body of Christ study God's word in true grace. Couple of things I'd like to point out regarding both of your comments:

1. 1 Corinthians 11 allows women to prophesy and pray in churches (although you mention that Paul forbids women from prophesying in church). That sheds light on this portion of his letter (i.e. he must not be telling them to generally be silent in all situations as some take this to mean).

2. We must always understand the culture from which the apostles write and what issues they address. As I'm sure you know, the Bible was not written in a vaccuum. This does not in any way make it less powerful or meaningful in our culture--every culture can and should be transformed by God to be a culture that can uniquely glorify God--but allows us to better understand their point of view. As we better understand their meaning, we can better apply it to our life. This is simple language theory and communication theory. For more on this, please see the writings of Vanhoozer, Franke, Wright, and Newbigin, for example.

3. I'm fully willing to admit I'm not the foremost Greek expert in the world. However, I continue to study it and work it out so I may best understand the word of God. In this particular passage, I continue to argue that how most translations take that dative as the subject (does not permit them to speak) is wrong. Because of this, we have a responsibility to figure out to what the word refers (and continue examining it). One of the things I intended to do with this blog post was to begin such dialogue but also help women understand that in this particular passage, we've had it wrong. This particular passage is not a general warning to always keep silent, but is referring to a specific context of prophesy in worship. Rather than interrupting the prophets and confronting them directly (which is where the dative comes in to play--not a general "them", but referring to this specific situation "in them"), the women were to go to their husbands and together they could straighten the matter our or learn more.