1 Corinthians (T&T Clark Study Guides)

by James D. G. Dunn

Publisher:

Sheffield Academic Press

, 1999

Overview

After presenting some preliminary questions regarding authorship, date, purpose and unity of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church, Dunn examines the problematic divisions that arose among the believers. He addresses the immense social tensions that erupted between the Church and society; and focuses on the problems arising regarding worship and belief.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Precisely because it deals with so many practical issues of mutual relations within a first-century church and between its members and their neighbours in a first-century city, and is not simply a theological treatise or all purpose ethical exhortation, the letter invites a variety of approaches.” (Pages 9–10)

“On present evidence, therefore, it would be wiser to assume that ‘the whole church’ in Corinth to whom 1 Corinthians was written might have comprised no more than about three or four dozen.” (Pages 17–18)

“‘Therefore the woman ought to have authority on her head on account of the angels’. The answer is surprisingly straightforward: if woman is the glory of man (11:7), then her head covering is to hide man’s glory in the presence of God and his angels. ‘Far from being a symbol of the woman’s subjection to man, therefore, her head-covering is what Paul calls it—authority’, for it thus functions as her authority to pray and prophesy before God.” (Page 71)

“Paul’s elder contemporary, Philo of Alexandria, for his allegorical expositions of the Scriptures.” (Page 30)

“ and focuses rather on the church’s interface with heaven.” (Page 85)

Product Details

• Title: T&T Clark Study Guides: 1 Corinthians
• Author: James D.G. Dunn
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication Date: 1999
• Pages: 113

About James D. G. Dunn

James D. G. Dunn (1939–) is emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham and is a leading British New Testament scholar. Dunn is a significant proponent of the New Perspective on Paul, and coined the term in a 1982 lecture. He received a PhD and DD from the University of Cambridge, and a MA and BD from the University of Glasgow. In 2002 he became only the third British scholar to be made the president of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

His recent works include Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence, A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed, the volumes Romans 1–8 and Romans 9–16 of the Word Biblical Commentary, and The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon in The New International Greek Testament Commentary (12 vols.).