Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author May, Alistair Scott.

Title The body for the Lord : sex and identity in 1 Corinthians 5-7 / Alistair Scott May.

Publication Info. London ; New York : T & T Clark International, [2004]
©2004

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (x, 295 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 278
Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 278.
Note Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Glasgow, 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-281) and indexes.
Summary Alistair May explores the part played by sexual ethics and the rhetoric of sexual morality in the formation of Christian identity by focusing on the longest discussion of sex in the New Testament - 1Corinthians 5-7. Viewing this passage as a unified discourse, he considers how Paul's ethics serve to give his converts a distinct identity. Although tools from the social sciences are used, the major focus of the work is in careful exegesis of the text. As the study progresses through the text of 1Corinthians 5-7, May argues that Paul strives to maintain an absolute distinction between insider and.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Bible. Corinthians, 1st, V-VII -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. New Testament. Corinthians. -- Criticism, Textual.
Bible. Corinthiens, 1re. V-VII -- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible.
Sex in the Bible.
Sex in the Bible.
Marriage -- Biblical teaching.
Marriage -- Biblical teaching.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Marriage.
Other Form: Print version: May, Alistair Scott. Body for the Lord. London ; New York : T & T Clark International, ©2004 056708096X (DLC) 2004478652 (OCoLC)58457711
ISBN 9780567054272 (electronic book)
0567054276 (electronic book)
9781283192255 (electronic book)
128319225X (electronic book)
056708096X
9780567080967