ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. Introduction: Ancient Greek Sexual Blueprints for Social Order; PART I: GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL SEXUAL REFORMS; 2. Desire's Hunger and Plato the Regulator; 3. Crafting Eros through the Stoic Logos of Nature; 4. The Reproductive Technology of the Pythagoreans; PART II: GREEK BIBLICAL SEXUAL RULES AND THEIR REWORKING BY PAUL AND PHILO; 5. Rival Plans for God's Sexual Program in the Pentateuch and Paul; 6. From the Prophets to Paul: Converting Whore Culture into the Lord's Veiled Bride; 7. Philo's Reproductive City of God
Summary
This work provides a reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. It shows that early Christian goals to eradicate fornication were derived from the sexual rules and poetic norms of the Greek bible
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-335) and index
