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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...

point!” The Corinthian setting for such a statement is also important. Dio Chrysostom (born ca. A.D. 40) visited the city of Corinth and in his Discourses commented on his visit. He noted the “large numbers gathered at Corinth” and attributed this to the harbors, the prostitutes and to the fact that the city was situated at the crossroads of Greece. He noted that when the Isthmian Games were held, “everybody was at the Isthmus.”5 While there one could hear Crowds of wretched sophists around Poseidon’s
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