The New Testament on Sexuality

by Loader, William

• ISBN13: 9780802867247
• ISBN10: 0802867243
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-13
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

This is the Fifth and Final Installment of William Loader's Authoritative, Acclaimed Series on Attitudes Toward Sexuality in the Ancient World. Book jacket.

Author Biography

William Loader is professor emeritus of New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. His other books on sexuality in early Judaism and Christianity are Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality; The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality; The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality; and Knock, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Sexuality in the Jewish World of the New Testament	p. 3
Adultery	p. 4
Adultery and Another Man's Rights	p. 4
Adultery and Divorce	p. 6
Further Infringements of Another Man's Rights	p. 9
Rape and Seduction	p. 9
Virgins	p. 10
Households	p. 11
Households and Inheritance	p. 11
Households, Slaves and Captive Women	p. 13
Other Sexual Wrongdoing	p. 15
Prostitutes	p. 15
Intermarriage	p. 18
Incest	p. 20
Same-Sex Intercourse	p. 22
The Prohibitions in Leviticus	p. 22
The Genesis Creation Stories and Same-Sex Relations	p. 27
Sodom and Gomorrah	p. 28
Other Old Testament Passages	p. 30
Early Jewish Writings	p. 32
Infanticide	p. 33
Sex in Everyday Life	p. 35
Purity Laws and Sex	p. 35
Sacred Space and Time	p. 36
Love and Marriage	p. 37
Making a Marriage according to Tobit	p. 42
Betrothal	p. 43
Premarital Chastity	p. 45
Wedding Celebrations	p. 45
Contracts, "Bride Price", Ketubba, and Dowries	p. 48
Polygyny	p. 51
Divorce	p. 54
Divorce In Reality	p. 54
Who Divorces Whom?	p. 56
Grounds for Divorce	p. 58
Fertility, Conception, Pregnancy and Childbirth	p. 62
Celibacy	p. 66
Sexuality in the Greco-Roman World of the New Testament	p. 74
Marriage, Divorce, and Monogyny	p. 75
Same-Sex Intercourse	p. 83
Sex and the Philosophers	p. 91
The Pythagoreans and Plato	p. 91
The Stoics	p. 95
Challenging Fatalism	p. 97
Sex and Society	p. 99
Changing Social Realities	p. 99
Roman Social Realities	p. 100
Augustan Reforms	p. 103
Non-Elites	p. 104
Love and Marriage	p. 106
Sexuality in the Gospel Tradition	p. 109
Adultery	p. 109
Matthew 5:27-28: Looking at Men Looking at Women	p. 109
The Excision Sayings	p. 119
Mark 9:43-48	p. 119
Matthew 18:6-9 Interpreting Mark 9:42-38	p. 124
Matthew 5:29-30 and Adultery	p. 127
An Older Tradition?	p. 129
Stark Imagery: Excision	p. 131
Woman Caught in Adultery	p. 135
Other Brief References to Adultery	p. 138
Adultery and Beyond	p. 139
Mary and Joseph	p. 139
Mark 7:21-23 and Matthew 15:18-20	p. 139
Adultery and Sexual Wrongdoing	p. 141
Jesus, John the Baptist, and Incest	p. 143
Marital Imagery in the Jesus Tradition	p. 146
Further Considerations	p. 147
Conclusions	p. 147
Sexuality in Paul and Beyond Paul	p. 152
The Writings of Paul	p. 152
Paul and the Thessalonians	p. 152
Paul and the Corinthians	p. 160
1 Corinthians 5 and Incest	p. 161
1 Corinthians 6 and Prostitution	p. 166
1 Corinthians 7 - Avoiding Porneia and Defending Marriage	p. 182
Paul's Opening Statement (1 Corinthians 7:1)	p. 182
Paul's Qualifications of the Opening Statement (1 Corinthians 7:2-7)	p. 187
The Unmarried and the Widows (1 Corinthians 7:8-9)	p. 198
The Married and Divorce (1 Corinthians 7:10-16)	p. 200
It is Good to Stay as You Are (1 Corinthians 7:17-35)	p. 204
Fathers, Daughters, and Widows (1 Corinthians 7:36-40)	p. 214
Conclusion: Paul on Sex in 1 Corinthians 5-7	p. 220
2 Corinthians 6:14 - 7:1 - Mixed Marriages?	p. 222
Paul and the Romans	p. 226
Romans 1 and Passion	p. 227
Romans 6-8 and the "Flesh"	p. 227
Conclusion	p. 233
Beyond Jesus and Paul	p. 234
Divorce	p. 240
The Sayings	p. 240
Matthew 5:31-32	p. 240
Mark 10:11-12	p. 253
Matthew 19:9	p. 256
Luke 16:18	p. 257
QLuke 16:18; Matthew 5:32	p. 259
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 Paul	p. 264
Behind the sayings	p. 269
The Controversy	p. 270
Mark 10:2-12	p. 271
Matthew 19:3-12	p. 279
Conclusions	p. 285
Same-Sex Intercourse	p. 293
Romans 1:24, 26-28	p. 293
Romans 1:24, 26-28 within Romans 1:16-3-26	p. 293
Paul's Argument	p. 293
Rhetoric and Reality	p. 295
Behind Paul's Argument	p. 297
Exegetical Comment on Romans 1:24 26-28	p. 302
Roman 1:24	p. 302
Romans 1:26	p. 308
Romans 1:27	p. 315
Romans 1:28	p. 319
Romans 1 among the Interpreters	p. 320
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10	p. 326
1 Corinthians 6:9-10	p. 326
1.Timothy 1:9-10	p. 332
Other New Testament Texts	p. 334
Men and Women in Community and Leadership	p. 339
The Jesus Tradition	p. 339
The Challenge of the Kingdom	p. 339
Sex in the Alternative Society	p. 341
Women	p. 344
The Woman Anointing Jesus	p. 344
Jesus mid "Outsider" Women
Women in Jesus' Ministry	p. 352
Men	p. 361
Family Power	p. 362
Paul	p. 368
Men and Women in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16	p. 368
Men and Women in 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36	p. 383
Men and Women in Galatians 3:26-28	p. 389
Men and Women in this Age and the Age to Come	p. 395
Men	p. 396
Beyond Paul	p. 401
The Unity Saying in Col 3:9-11	p. 401
Household Codes	p. 404
The Household Code in Colossians	p. 405
The Household Code in Ephesians	p. 407
The Household Code in Titus and 1 Peter	p. 411
Slaves and Households	p. 416
Men and Women in Church Order	p. 418
Restraining Women in 1 Timothy	p. 418
Men, Women, and Ministry in 1 Timothy	p. 424
Celibacy	p. 430
Mark, Matthew and Luke on Marriage in the Age to Come	p. 430
Eunuchs for the Kingdom	p. 436
Radical Discipleship, Family and Celibacy	p. 444
Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul - the Celibacy Option	p. 447
Paul and Celibacy	p. 453
1 Corinthians 7	p. 453
Celibacy in Paul-Why?	p. 459
Paul's reasons for Preferring Celibacy	p. 459
The Corinthians and Celibacy	p. 462
No "male and female" and Later Oneness Traditions	p. 467
Virgins, Widows, and the Sacred	p. 476
Virginity in Matthew and Luke	p. 476
"Who have not defiled themselves with women" (Rev 14:4)?	p. 478
Like Little Children?	p. 481
Conclusion	p. 483
Summary Review	p. 483
Where does this Notion of Celibacy Come From?	p. 485
Conclusion	p. 491
Bibliography	p. 501
Index of Modem Authors	p. 541
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 549
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