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My dissertation provides insight into the academic debate concerning the moral message of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. Although the earlier tradition of critical commentary on the topic tends to disregard the text’s didactic scope, more recent scholars generally point out the…

This dissertation argues that the Tenth Commandment plays a formative role in Paul’s ethical instruction in the following ways: (1) Paul describes and defines sin using the Tenth Commandment (Rom 7:7; 1 Cor 10:6); (2) he connects covetousness and idolatry (1 Cor 10:6–7; Eph 5:5;…