Paul Among the People
The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time
New York : Pantheon Books, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xix, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Explores the ways in which Apostle Paul's edicts may have been misinterpreted, in an account that translates his writings from Koine Greek to assess how he may have been wrongly perceived as a misogynist and social conformist.
Contents:
Preface: who was Paul? -- Paul and Aristophanes-no, really -- The end of fun? Paul and pleasure -- No closet, no monsters? Paul and homosexuality -- An apostolic oinker? Paul and women -- Just following orders? Paul and the state -- Nobody here but us bondsmen: Paul and slavery -- Love just is: Paul on the foundation of the new community.
ISBN:
9780375425011
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RELIGION People Rud | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index.