Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: St Paul and Women Message-ID: Date: 11 May 91 02:53:01 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jmoon@lehi3b15.csee.lehigh.edu (Jonggu Moon [890911]) writes: + +[The view that Paul hates women actually seems to be fairly rare, +though I have heard it from time to time. More common is the concept +that he is reflecting views of his culture on appropriate roles for +women. I think most Christians, even those who don't feel bound by I believe the Bible only mentions 2 women as 'judges' of Israel. In each of the these cases it is mentioned as an 'insult' in that the men were so hopelessly evil that 'God' had to 'call' call a woman. Deborah is one, I can't recall the other. This would suggest a 'strong' bias to only consider men for positions of leadership. In most other cases of women in power, the woman is leading into 'apostacy'. Re-enforcing the concept of woman as evil, and in need of 'control'.(Esther is probably the only counter example but she was married to a 'pagan', and 'won' her battle in all due humility). -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu [I just looked at Judges 4. It says simply that Deborah was a prophet, and was serving as a judge for Israel. I see no sign that this was because males were unavailable. Another example of a female authority figure would be Huldah, the prophet who was consulting when the book of the Law was found. (2 Kings 22). --clh]