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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reno, Joshua M

Titel

Wife of the Father: Analytic Kin Circumlocution and the Case for Corinthian Adultery

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Biblical literature, 2016-12, Vol.135 (4), p.827

Ort / Verlag

Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Modern exegesis of 1 Cor 5 has functioned under two assumptions: first, Paul's phrase ... echoes similar locutions found in Leviticus or Deuteronomy, and, second, sexual liaisons between sons and their stepmothers were considered incestuous in Greco-Roman antiquity. By examining the use of analytic kin circumlocution, this article argues that Paul's periphrasis not only is a standard circumlocution for ... ("stepmother") but also is constructed to highlight the particularly egregious nature of this affair: it is an inner- ... adultery. Roman, Greek, and Second Temple Jewish data indicate that son-stepmother trysts, while especially offensive, were considered adulterous. By removing this perceived pentateuchal anchor, this article opens new possibilities for reading 1 Cor 5 as a test case in Paul's homonoia argument in 1 Cor 1-4 and suggests marriage and the ... as a new latticework for holding together the disparate elements of 1 Cor 5-7.