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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...

Christian references to his legacy, and Greek and Roman historical sources as well as archaeological evidence, many “lives of Paul” of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries discussed his ministry within the context of a history of religions approach and situated him in either a Greco-Roman or a Jewish milieu.17 This kind of study became prominent again in the second half of the twentieth century, as the works of W.D. Davies, Egon Brandenburger, and others show.18 More recently, histories

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