Aida Besancon Spencer
Aida Besancon Spencer 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.