Title The Corinthian body / Dale B. Martin

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 330 pages) Contents Hierarchy -- The body in Greco-Roman culture -- The rhetoric of the body politic -- The body's economy -- Tongues of angels in the body of Christ -- The resurrected body -- Pollution -- The body, disease, and pollution -- Sex, food, and the pollution of the Corinthian body -- The dangers of desire -- Prophylactic veils Summary In this intriguing discussion of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, Dale Martin contends that Paul's various disagreements with the Corinthians were the result of a fundamental conflict over the ideological construction of the human body. According to Martin, most Corinthian Christians and Paul himself saw the body as an entity that could be permeated by different pollutions. Other members of the Corinthian church, however, viewed the body as hierarchical--as a microcosm of the universe--and were not particularly concerned about body boundaries or pollution. These differing views of the human body (and also of the church as the body of Christ) led to differing opinions on a variety of subjects--including the role of rhetoric and philosophy in a hierarchical society, the eating of meat sacrificed to idols, prostitution, sexual desire and marriage, and the resurrection of the body. Martin explores these conflicts by drawing on ancient medical writings, modern anthropological approaches, and feminist and ideological methods of critical analysis. He shows how Paul's understanding of the body prevailed among the less well-educated inhabitants of the Roman Empire, who occupied relatively low socioeconomic levels. The minority who espoused the ideas of hierarchy, on the other hand, were usually of higher social status and were better educated. And it was along these same class lines, Martin argues, that the Corinthian church itself was divided Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and indexes Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Paulus <Apostel> swd Bible. Corinthians, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc Bible. Corinthians, 1st fast Bibel Korintherbrief 1. gnd Bible. New Testament -- Critique, interprétation, etc. ram Subject Human body -- Religious aspects. Human body in literature. Civilization, Greco-Roman. 11.47 cultural-historical background of the New Testament. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Sacred Sexuality. Civilization, Greco-Roman Human body in literature Human body -- Religious aspects Antike Leiblichkeit Leib Menselijk lichaam. Symboliek. Hellenisme. I Corinthiërs (bijbelboek) Corps humain -- Aspect religieux. Corps humain -- Dans la littérature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 94044947 ISBN 0585356556 9780585356556

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