Reading Corinthians: A Literary and Theological Commentary on 1 & 2 Corinthians (Biblia.com)

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Paul’s letters to the Christians in Corinth portray a young church struggling to live out the demands of the gospel amid the life of a thoroughly urban setting. Biblical scholar, Charles Talbert helps his reader to grasp what was at stake in the conversations between Paul and the Corinthians. What we find there is not only a word for the struggling faithful in Corinth, but an always truthful word...

taking an active part: e.g., Varro De Lingua Latina 5.29.130; Juvenal Satires 6.390–92). From 11:16, it appears that the general practice in the Pauline churches was for women to keep their heads covered during worship. To cover the head was an act attesting a woman’s sexuality. To remove the head covering, moreover, was a social symbol of one’s transcendence of her sexuality. In Joseph and Aseneth, a pre-Christian Hellenistic Jewish propaganda tract, Aseneth is a virgin converted to Judaism through

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