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After presenting some preliminary questions regarding authorship, date, purpose and unity of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church, Dunn examines the problematic divisions that arose among the believers. He addresses the immense social tensions that erupted between the Church and society; and focuses on the problems arising regarding worship and belief.

back into close focus at the end of the first section (chs. 1–4) has long suggested that the first section as a whole is directed primarily against an Apollos faction. The attractiveness of this latter hypothesis is enhanced when we recall that, according to Acts 18:24 and 28, Apollos was from Alexandria and was an eloquent and powerful expositor of the Scriptures. For the Jewish community in Alexandria was famed for its wisdom literature and Paul’s elder contemporary, Philo of Alexandria, for his
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