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Paul through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, steeped in the learning of his people. But he was also a Roman citizen who widely traveled the Mediterranean basin, and was very knowledgeable of the dominant Greek and Roman culture of his day. These two mighty rivers of influence converge in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. With razor-sharp attention to the text, Kenneth Bailey examines the cultural...

saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi” (1:2).9 Second Corinthians is addressed to “the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia” (1:1). In this last instance, the readers of 2 Corinthians are not a single church in one urban center. Rather, the letter is written for the church at Corinth and for all believers in the surrounding district. The intended readership of 1 Corinthians is, however, broader. Paul addressed 1 Corinthians to the Corinthian Christians
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