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Cornelia Cyss Crocker uses the insights of hermeneutics and other critical methods to offer a new reading of 1 Corinthians. One of the challenges of reading 1 Corinthians these days is that its style seems foreign to us and many of its passages seem irrelevant to us today. On the other hand, many of the passages have become too familiar, overly authoritative, and too oppressively close for...

people, 1:11) and in answer to specific questions that had been addressed to him, either by the Corinthian church as a whole or by a subgroup.59 We do not know what other questions might have been debated in the Corinthian church that are not reflected in Paul’s letter. And clearly, Paul had not heard from the one who was living with (literally “had”) the wife of his own father (5:1) or from those who went before worldly courts and litigated with their fellow Christians (6:1–8). Thus, the report
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