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 P…
If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life we make profound error. So contends Calum Carmichael in this reading of some ofthe Hebrew Bible and New Testament's most famous narratives.
If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life we make profound error. So contends Calum Carmichael in this reading of some of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament's most famous narratives.
The Vanishing Hebrew Harlot is written with two objectives: First, to recover the core meaning of the Hebrew stem ZNH as a complex of non-Yahwist rituals, deities, institutions and beliefs prevalent in ancient Israel and Judah. With this understanding, the author assigns the tra…
J. Edward Ellis refutes the argument put forward by some biblical scholars that Paul, in his sexual ethics, is in partial agreement with a current of thought in the Graeco-Roman world that condemns sexual desire and advocates the elimination of such desire from marital sex.