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| Introduction | |
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| Plates | |
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| The Enigma and Cultural Setting of 1 Corinthians | |
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| Unresolved Issues for the Corinthian Church | |
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| Secular Ethics and Social Change in Corinth | |
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| The Cultural and Social Background of Corinth | |
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| 'So Whatever Happened after Paul Left Corinth?' | |
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| The Influence of Secular Ethics | |
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| Secular Discipleship and Christian Competitiveness (1 Corinthians 1-4) | |
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| 'Operating in a Secular Fashion' (3:3) | |
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| The Secular Pupil/Teacher Relationship | |
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| Professional Competitiveness among Teachers | |
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| Pupils' Loyalty to Their Teachers | |
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| Secular Reverberations in 1 Corinthians | |
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| Criminal Law and Christian Partiality (1 Corinthians 5) | |
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| 'Do You Not Judge Those Who Are Within?' (5:12) | |
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| Criminal Prosecutions | |
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| Incest--Degrees of Seriousness | |
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| The Guilty, the Father, and the Christian Community | |
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| Civil Law and Christian Litigiousness (1 Corinthians 6:1-8) | |
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| 'Brother Goes to Court against Brother' (6:6) | |
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| Civil Litigation in Roman Society | |
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| 'Unrighteous' Judges and Juries | |
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| Enmity and Vexatious Litigation | |
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| The 'Private' Arbitrator and Conflict Resolution | |
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| Those 'of No Account' in the Church | |
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| Defrauding a 'Brother' | |
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| Shaming in Roman Culture | |
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| Elitist Ethics and Christian Permissiveness (1 Corinthians 6:12-20; 10:23; 15:29-34) | |
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| 'All Things Are Permitted (for Me)' (6:12; 10:23) | |
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| The Soul, the Senses, and Elitist Ethics | |
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| 'All Things Are Permitted for Me' | |
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| Gluttony, Drunkenness, and Sexual Indulgence | |
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| Elitist Ethics and 1 Corinthians 6:12; 10:23; 15:29-34 | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Roman Homosexual Activity and the Elite | |
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| Veiled Men and Wives and Christian Contentiousness (1 Corinthians 11:2-16) | |
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| 'Obliged to Unveil ... and Obliged to Veil' (11:7, 10) | |
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| Men of Status Covering Their Heads | |
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| 'New' Wives and the Sign of Marital Status | |
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| The 'Public' Meeting and 'the Messengers' | |
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| Contentiousness in the Congregation | |
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| 'Private' Dinners and Christian Divisiveness (1 Corinthians 11:17-34) | |
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| 'When You Gather It Is Not to Eat the Lord's Dinner' (11:20) | |
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| Reconstructing the Debacle at the Lord's Dinner | |
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| The Pauline Interpretation of the Words of Jesus | |
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| The Lord's Dinner as a 'Private' Banquet | |
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| 'I Partly Believe It' or 'I Believe a Certain Report'? (11:18) | |
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| Religious Curses and Christian Vindictiveness (1 Corinthians 12-14) | |
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| 'You Were Led Away to Dumb Idols' (12:2) | |
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| Pagan Religion and Cursing | |
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| Christian Curses in the Post-apostolic Church | |
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| Paganism and the Curse in 12:3a | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Secular Patronage and Christian Dominance (1 Corinthians 16:15-16) | |
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| 'The House of Stephanas ... Set Themselves to Minister' (16:15) | |
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| The Private Patron in the Service of Politeia | |
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| Private Patrons in the Politics of the Church | |
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| The Patron and Patroness in the Service of the Church | |
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| The Conversion of Patronage | |
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| The Meanings of [characters not reproducible] | |
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| The Influence of Social Changes | |
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| The Present Crisis and the Marriage Bed (1 Corinthians 7:1-5) | |
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| 'It Is Good for a Man Not to Touch [His] Wife' (7:1) | |
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| 'The Present Distress' for Corinth and the Church | |
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| Familia and Sexual Language | |
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| Sexual Abstinence in Marriage | |
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| The Forward Referent of the Neuter Demonstrative Pronoun in 7:6-7 | |
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| The Present Crisis and the Consummation of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:25-38) | |
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| 'He Who Marries ... He Who Does Not Marry' (7:38) | |
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| Personal Dilemmas Aggravated by the Present Dislocation | |
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| Eschatology and Youth's Expectations of This Life | |
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| Christian Obligations for Singles and Marrieds | |
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| The Imperial Cult, the Games, and Dining in a Temple (1 Corinthians 8-10:21) | |
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| 'Sitting at Meat in an Idol's Temple' (8:10) | |
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| The Federal Imperial Cult and the Games in Corinth | |
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| The Corinthian Christians and the Imperial Cult | |
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| Christians Dining in the Temple after Paul Left | |
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| The Christians, the Cult, and the Games | |
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| Kosher Food and Idol Meat (1 Corinthians 10:25-28) | |
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| 'Eat Whatever Is Sold in the Marketplace' (10:25) | |
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| Official Food Concessions for Diaspora Jews | |
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| The Corinthian Meat Market | |
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| When Paul Was in Corinth | |
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| After Paul Left Corinth | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Biblical References | |
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| Ancient Sources | |
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| Modern Authors | |
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| Subjects | |