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020 $a0521472849 (hardback)
039 $aLTI base file January 2006
082 00 $a227/.206$220
090 $a227.206$b10
100 1 $aDeming, Will,$d1956-
245 10 $aPaul on marriage and celibacy :$bthe Hellenistic
background of 1 Corinthians 7 /$cWill Deming.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University
Press,$c1995.
300 $axiv, 265 p. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aMonograph series (Society for New Testament
Studies) ;$v83.
500 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis
(doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1991.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 232-258)
and indexes.
505 0 $a1. The motivation for celibacy in 1 Corinthians
7: a review of scholarly opinion. 1. Paul in the light of
Stoic and Cynic materials. 2. Motivations for celibacy from
Hellenistic Judaism. 3. Motivations for celibacy from
first-century Christianity. 4. The use of second-, third-,
and fourth-century sources -- 2. The Stoic-Cynic marriage
debate. 1. Issues and dynamics in the Stoic-Cynic marriage
debate. 2. The fifth to the third century BCE. 3. The second
to the first century BCE. 4. The first to the middle of the
second century CE. 5. The middle of the second century CE
and beyond. 6. First-century Judaism and early Christianity
-- 3. Stoic and Cynic elements in 1 Corinthians 7. 1. A
"Cynic" position for married Christians: 1 Corinthians
7.1-7. 2. Marriage out of passion: 1 Corinthians 7.8-9. 3.
Marriage as slavery to an outside influence: 1 Corinthians
7.10-24. 4. Paul's argument against marriage by reason of
adverse circumstances: 1 Corinthians 7.25-8.
505 8 $a5. Apocalyptic "circumstances": 1 Corinthians
7.29-31. 6. The commitments of married life and finding time
for the Lord: 1 Corinthians 7.32-5. 7. Good and better, sin
and blessedness: 1 Corinthians 7.36-40 -- 4. A non-ascetic
interpretation of Paul. 1. Paul's audience in 1 Corinthians
7. 2. Paul's understanding of marriage and celibacy. 3. Paul
in the history of Christian asceticism -- Appendix A:
Antipater of Tarsus, from his On Marriage, SVF
3.254.23-257.10 (Stobaeus 4.507.6-512.7 W.-H.) -- Appendix
B: [Ocellus Lucanus] On the Nature of the Universe 43
(END)-51.
630 00 $aBible.$pN.T.$pCorinthians, 1st, VII$xCriticism,
interpretation, etc.
650 0 $aMarriage$xBiblical teaching.
650 0 $aCelibacy$xBiblical teaching.
650 0 $aCynics (Greek philosophy)
650 0 $aStoics.
