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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...

the early church, or that would signify the inbreaking reign of God; Jesus’ death itself can be seen as linked to that reign. As such, Jesus’ death is of importance not just as a past event in human political-religious affairs, but is also crucial for the present and for all future history as well: It is understood as having salvific value.76 Hence, the confession “was crucified” becomes “died for our sins according to the Scriptures”77 based on a trajectory that can be found in the Torah, the
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