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Paul’s letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing passages from the Apostle. Now, in a challenging new attempt to wrestle with these thorny texts, Craig Keener delves as deeply into the world of Paul and the apostles as anyone thus far. Acknowledging that we must take the biblical text seriously and recognizing that Paul’s letters...

The same may be even more the case for his comments on slavery. Although the wilderness Essenes and some other radical communities rejected slavery in principle (generally because they rejected all private property), the most progressive views expressed among those in mainstream society generally promoted only slaves’ equality in nature and their fair treatment. By arguing not only for their human equality but for something like mutual submission between slaves and slaveholders (Eph. 6:9), Paul was
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