"... It may be added here that other positive statements concerning women in the NT are paralleled in Jewish literature: the injunction to equality in conjugal rights in 1 Cor 7,1-5 is paralleled, e.g., in the Mishnah, Ket 5,7 (on Ex 21,10); and the exercise of prophecy by women in 1 Cor 11,5 is paralleled, of course, in the story of Deborah, Judges 4,4. The question arises whether these parallels could have existed in Judaism as early as NT times, and so have been known to the writers of the NT. It should be made clear that positive proof of their existence in pre-Christian or primitive Christian times is not available. The dating problem that is present in all considerations of the rabbinic parallels to the NT is present in this case, too. The fact is that the rabbinic materials, which contain many parallels to the NT, were not put into writing until the end of the second century. The general opinion of scholars at the present time is that much of the material may have circulated orally a century or two earlier and have been received by the NT writers from the rabbinic tradition, although it is hardly ever possible to demonstrate that this was so in a particular case ... The Genesis Rabbah, a late fifth- or early sixth-century compilation, ascribes the passage to two rabbis who lived ca. 250 and ca. 135 respectively. If the ascriptions are correct, the parallel existed in oral form in the early second century ..."