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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...

well-being of many people, it is now clear that these texts have to be read and studied with a healthy dose of suspicion.7 Not only is the interpretation of 1 Corinthians quite a challenge—given the tension that exists between what is invaluable for the Christian faith in this letter and what is objectionable—it is similarly difficult to come to terms with one’s stance toward the person of Paul. The apostle has been regarded both as a saint and as a villain by various believers and scholars and
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