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Conflict and Community in Corinth: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Here Witherington brings traditional exegetical and historical methods to the study of 1 and 2 Corinthians, analyzing Paul’s two letters in terms of Greco-Roman rhetoric and ancient social conditions and customs. This approach reveals the context and content of Paul’s message in a new light and discloses Paul’s relationship with his Corinthian converts.

public shaming and humiliation (Dio Chrysostom 64.2f.) or of misfortune or mourning (Plutarch Quaest. Rom. 267B). This text raises a number of questions for us. First, why does Paul want to maintain for women, but not for men, the Roman practice of covering the head when engaging in a religious act? The bulk of his argument is taken up with providing a theological rationale for this (vv. 2–12). The theological rationale is not brought in as an afterthought to prop up an argument primarily grounded
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