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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.

the head was covered not only when offering a sacrifice but also during the prophetic reading of the entrails. That such liturgical covering of the head applied equally to women is mentioned by Varro (De Lingua Latina 5.29.130) and confirmed by Juvenal (Sat. 6.390–92). Such covering of the head was “not a general form of dress adopted by people attending a sacrifice” but was done only by those “taking an active part.”12 This is crucial because Paul in 1 Cor. 11:2ff. is only addressing those actively
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