The New Testament on Sexuality
, by Loader, William
- ISBN: 9780802867247 | 0802867243
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/13/2012
This is the Fifth and Final Installment of William Loader's Authoritative, Acclaimed Series on Attitudes Toward Sexuality in the Ancient World. Book jacket.
William Loader is professor emeritus of New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. His other books on sexuality in early Judaism and Christianity are Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality; The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality; The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality; and Knock, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality.
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Sexuality in the Jewish World of the New Testament | p. 3 |
| Adultery | p. 4 |
| Adultery and Another Man's Rights | p. 4 |
| Adultery and Divorce | p. 6 |
| Further Infringements of Another Man's Rights | p. 9 |
| Rape and Seduction | p. 9 |
| Virgins | p. 10 |
| Households | p. 11 |
| Households and Inheritance | p. 11 |
| Households, Slaves and Captive Women | p. 13 |
| Other Sexual Wrongdoing | p. 15 |
| Prostitutes | p. 15 |
| Intermarriage | p. 18 |
| Incest | p. 20 |
| Same-Sex Intercourse | p. 22 |
| The Prohibitions in Leviticus | p. 22 |
| The Genesis Creation Stories and Same-Sex Relations | p. 27 |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | p. 28 |
| Other Old Testament Passages | p. 30 |
| Early Jewish Writings | p. 32 |
| Infanticide | p. 33 |
| Sex in Everyday Life | p. 35 |
| Purity Laws and Sex | p. 35 |
| Sacred Space and Time | p. 36 |
| Love and Marriage | p. 37 |
| Making a Marriage according to Tobit | p. 42 |
| Betrothal | p. 43 |
| Premarital Chastity | p. 45 |
| Wedding Celebrations | p. 45 |
| Contracts, "Bride Price", Ketubba, and Dowries | p. 48 |
| Polygyny | p. 51 |
| Divorce | p. 54 |
| Divorce In Reality | p. 54 |
| Who Divorces Whom? | p. 56 |
| Grounds for Divorce | p. 58 |
| Fertility, Conception, Pregnancy and Childbirth | p. 62 |
| Celibacy | p. 66 |
| Sexuality in the Greco-Roman World of the New Testament | p. 74 |
| Marriage, Divorce, and Monogyny | p. 75 |
| Same-Sex Intercourse | p. 83 |
| Sex and the Philosophers | p. 91 |
| The Pythagoreans and Plato | p. 91 |
| The Stoics | p. 95 |
| Challenging Fatalism | p. 97 |
| Sex and Society | p. 99 |
| Changing Social Realities | p. 99 |
| Roman Social Realities | p. 100 |
| Augustan Reforms | p. 103 |
| Non-Elites | p. 104 |
| Love and Marriage | p. 106 |
| Sexuality in the Gospel Tradition | p. 109 |
| Adultery | p. 109 |
| Matthew 5:27-28: Looking at Men Looking at Women | p. 109 |
| The Excision Sayings | p. 119 |
| Mark 9:43-48 | p. 119 |
| Matthew 18:6-9 Interpreting Mark 9:42-38 | p. 124 |
| Matthew 5:29-30 and Adultery | p. 127 |
| An Older Tradition? | p. 129 |
| Stark Imagery: Excision | p. 131 |
| Woman Caught in Adultery | p. 135 |
| Other Brief References to Adultery | p. 138 |
| Adultery and Beyond | p. 139 |
| Mary and Joseph | p. 139 |
| Mark 7:21-23 and Matthew 15:18-20 | p. 139 |
| Adultery and Sexual Wrongdoing | p. 141 |
| Jesus, John the Baptist, and Incest | p. 143 |
| Marital Imagery in the Jesus Tradition | p. 146 |
| Further Considerations | p. 147 |
| Conclusions | p. 147 |
| Sexuality in Paul and Beyond Paul | p. 152 |
| The Writings of Paul | p. 152 |
| Paul and the Thessalonians | p. 152 |
| Paul and the Corinthians | p. 160 |
| 1 Corinthians 5 and Incest | p. 161 |
| 1 Corinthians 6 and Prostitution | p. 166 |
| 1 Corinthians 7 - Avoiding Porneia and Defending Marriage | p. 182 |
| Paul's Opening Statement (1 Corinthians 7:1) | p. 182 |
| Paul's Qualifications of the Opening Statement (1 Corinthians 7:2-7) | p. 187 |
| The Unmarried and the Widows (1 Corinthians 7:8-9) | p. 198 |
| The Married and Divorce (1 Corinthians 7:10-16) | p. 200 |
| It is Good to Stay as You Are (1 Corinthians 7:17-35) | p. 204 |
| Fathers, Daughters, and Widows (1 Corinthians 7:36-40) | p. 214 |
| Conclusion: Paul on Sex in 1 Corinthians 5-7 | p. 220 |
| 2 Corinthians 6:14 - 7:1 - Mixed Marriages? | p. 222 |
| Paul and the Romans | p. 226 |
| Romans 1 and Passion | p. 227 |
| Romans 6-8 and the "Flesh" | p. 227 |
| Conclusion | p. 233 |
| Beyond Jesus and Paul | p. 234 |
| Divorce | p. 240 |
| The Sayings | p. 240 |
| Matthew 5:31-32 | p. 240 |
| Mark 10:11-12 | p. 253 |
| Matthew 19:9 | p. 256 |
| Luke 16:18 | p. 257 |
| QLuke 16:18; Matthew 5:32 | p. 259 |
| 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 Paul | p. 264 |
| Behind the sayings | p. 269 |
| The Controversy | p. 270 |
| Mark 10:2-12 | p. 271 |
| Matthew 19:3-12 | p. 279 |
| Conclusions | p. 285 |
| Same-Sex Intercourse | p. 293 |
| Romans 1:24, 26-28 | p. 293 |
| Romans 1:24, 26-28 within Romans 1:16-3-26 | p. 293 |
| Paul's Argument | p. 293 |
| Rhetoric and Reality | p. 295 |
| Behind Paul's Argument | p. 297 |
| Exegetical Comment on Romans 1:24 26-28 | p. 302 |
| Roman 1:24 | p. 302 |
| Romans 1:26 | p. 308 |
| Romans 1:27 | p. 315 |
| Romans 1:28 | p. 319 |
| Romans 1 among the Interpreters | p. 320 |
| 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10 | p. 326 |
| 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 | p. 326 |
| 1.Timothy 1:9-10 | p. 332 |
| Other New Testament Texts | p. 334 |
| Men and Women in Community and Leadership | p. 339 |
| The Jesus Tradition | p. 339 |
| The Challenge of the Kingdom | p. 339 |
| Sex in the Alternative Society | p. 341 |
| Women | p. 344 |
| The Woman Anointing Jesus | p. 344 |
| Jesus mid "Outsider" Women | |
| Women in Jesus' Ministry | p. 352 |
| Men | p. 361 |
| Family Power | p. 362 |
| Paul | p. 368 |
| Men and Women in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 | p. 368 |
| Men and Women in 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36 | p. 383 |
| Men and Women in Galatians 3:26-28 | p. 389 |
| Men and Women in this Age and the Age to Come | p. 395 |
| Men | p. 396 |
| Beyond Paul | p. 401 |
| The Unity Saying in Col 3:9-11 | p. 401 |
| Household Codes | p. 404 |
| The Household Code in Colossians | p. 405 |
| The Household Code in Ephesians | p. 407 |
| The Household Code in Titus and 1 Peter | p. 411 |
| Slaves and Households | p. 416 |
| Men and Women in Church Order | p. 418 |
| Restraining Women in 1 Timothy | p. 418 |
| Men, Women, and Ministry in 1 Timothy | p. 424 |
| Celibacy | p. 430 |
| Mark, Matthew and Luke on Marriage in the Age to Come | p. 430 |
| Eunuchs for the Kingdom | p. 436 |
| Radical Discipleship, Family and Celibacy | p. 444 |
| Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul - the Celibacy Option | p. 447 |
| Paul and Celibacy | p. 453 |
| 1 Corinthians 7 | p. 453 |
| Celibacy in Paul-Why? | p. 459 |
| Paul's reasons for Preferring Celibacy | p. 459 |
| The Corinthians and Celibacy | p. 462 |
| No "male and female" and Later Oneness Traditions | p. 467 |
| Virgins, Widows, and the Sacred | p. 476 |
| Virginity in Matthew and Luke | p. 476 |
| "Who have not defiled themselves with women" (Rev 14:4)? | p. 478 |
| Like Little Children? | p. 481 |
| Conclusion | p. 483 |
| Summary Review | p. 483 |
| Where does this Notion of Celibacy Come From? | p. 485 |
| Conclusion | p. 491 |
| Bibliography | p. 501 |
| Index of Modem Authors | p. 541 |
| Index of Ancient Sources | p. 549 |
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