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Author:

Countryman, Louis William, 1941-

Title:

Dirt, greed, & sex : sexual ethics in the New Testament and their implications for today / L. William Countryman.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publisher:

Fortress Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xv, 349 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Bible.--N.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Sex in the Bible.
Sexual ethics--History.
Sex customs--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) and indexes.

Contents:

What is purity? -- Israel's basic purity law -- Purity in first-century Judaism -- Purity and Christianity : a first-century historian's interpretation -- Purity in the Gospels -- Paul and purity -- The New Testament and sexual purity -- Women and children as property in the ancient Mediterranean world -- Household and sexual property in the Gospels -- Paul and sexual property -- The New Testament on sexual property -- Are other principles of sexual ethics at work in the New Testament? -- New Testament sexual ethics and today's world.

ISBN:

0800638484 (alk. paper)
9780800638481 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)124538992

LCCN:

2007019477

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OLAX314 -- Reu Memorial Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)