Bible Books
What Paul really said about Women
John Temple Bristow San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988) 139 pp., $12.95
“Paul was … the first great champion of sexual equality” (p. xi). Demonstrating this proposition is the task taken on by John Temple Bristow, a Disciples of Christ pastor in Seattle. His task is all the more difficult since Bristow accepts the questionable Pauline authorship of Ephesians1 and of 1 Corinthians 14:33b–36, 2 as well as the dubious Pauline authorship of 1 Timothy, key texts that underpin Paul’s reputation as a misogynist.
Bristow claims that Paul’s letters have been mistranslated. He asserts that “the words of Paul … had their meanings molded to conform to the thoughts of Aristotle” (p. xii), who viewed women as being submissive, thus leading to the traditional misunderstanding of what Paul really said about women.
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