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The Women's Bible Commentary - Love More and More: Sexual Behaviour and Social Morality
The Women's Bible Commentary - Love More and More: Sexual Behaviour and Social Morality
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Household Code The author believes that behaviour appropriate to the new life is communal in nature (3:12–15), constituted by Christian worship (3:16–17), and marked by the peace and harmony of the reconciled creation (3:14)…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Household Code
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Household Code
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Household Code The author believes that behaviour appropriate to the new life is communal in nature (3:12–15), constituted by Christian worship (3:16–17), and marked by the peace and harmony of the reconciled creation (3:14)…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Household Code
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Household Code
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
The Household Code Household Duties in Greco-Roman Culture and Early Judaism As long ago as the fourth century BCE, philosophers considered the household a microcosm, the basic social unit whose structure ought to reflect the pyramidal structure of the whole society and even natu…
The Women's Bible Commentary - A Pure Bride or Deceived Eve?
The Women's Bible Commentary - A Pure Bride or Deceived Eve?
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
A Pure Bride or Deceived Eve? Paul’s obvious concern throughout this letter is that false apostles have undermined the Corinthians’ loyalty to him and have drawn them away from the gospel that he preached and thus (in Paul’s view) from Christ…
The Women's Bible Commentary - No Male and Female?
The Women's Bible Commentary - No Male and Female?
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
No Male and Female? To illustrate the diversity of the body of Christ, Paul asserts that “in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit” (12:13). Behind this verse is a baptismal formula, reproduced…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Natural and Unnatural Acts
The Women's Bible Commentary - Natural and Unnatural Acts
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Natural and Unnatural Acts Within the context of his initial discussion of humanity’s rebellion against God, Paul refers to the “degrading passions”: “Women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, we…
The Women's Bible Commentary - The Women of Thessalonica and Beroea, and Damaris of Athens