So, then, Paul’s use of everyday words to describe basic aspects of church life demonstrates his desire to overcome the usual sacred/secular dichotomy. A partial precedent for this may be found in the later OT prophetic books5 and in intertestamental Judaism.6 Though some anticultic tendencies occur in Hellenistic Judaism, and to a degree in Qumran, they never amount to a fundamental rejection of the cult.7 For Paul, however, there is no longer an official priesthood that mediates between God and