02749cam a2200421Ja 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036010001700077020003200094020002900126035002100155040014800176050002500324082002100349100003800370245012000408246002600528250001300554260005200567300002700619504006900646505054500715520044901260630005901709630003301768650002201801650002801823650002601851650002301877650002801900650002501928655004201953655001901995776014902014856008102163856008302244ocn124538992OCoLC20241015121120.0070508s2007    mnu      b    001 0 eng    a  2007019477  a9780800638481q(alk. paper)  a0800638484q(alk. paper)  a(OCoLC)124538992  aDLCbengcZAAPAdBAKERdBTCTAdYDXCPdC#PdBWXdOCLCQdHNWdOCLCAdOCLCQdOCLCAdOCLCFdOCLCQdOCLCOdOCLCQdMORdUEJdOCLCAdDHAdOCLCQdZAAPA10aBS2545.S36bC68 200700a241/.66090152221 aCountryman, Louis William,d1941-10aDirt, greed, & sex :bsexual ethics in the New Testament and their implications for today /cL. William Countryman.3 aDirty, greed, and sex  aRev. ed.  aMinneapolis, Minn. :bFortress Press,c�2007.  axv, 349 pages ;c23 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and indexes.0 aWhat is purity? -- Israel's basic purity law -- Purity in first-century Judaism -- Purity and Christianity : a first-century historian's interpretation -- Purity in the Gospels -- Paul and purity -- The New Testament and sexual purity -- Women and children as property in the ancient Mediterranean world -- Household and sexual property in the Gospels -- Paul and sexual property -- The New Testament on sexual property -- Are other principles of sexual ethics at work in the New Testament? -- New Testament sexual ethics and today's world.  aThis revised edition, of the 1988 text, includes updated text and notes throughout, taking advantage of recent studies of sexual ethics and, where appropriate, criticizing them. A new chapter engages the presumed "ethic of creation" that has become a major theme among more conservative thinkers and writers in biblical ethics. A concluding chapter on sex is thoroughly rewritten and offers a positive statement of a New Testament sexual ethic.00aBible.pNew TestamentxCriticism, interpretation, etc.07aBible.pNew Testament.2fast 0aSex in the Bible. 0aSexual ethicsxHistory. 0aSex customsxHistory. 7aSex customs.2fast 7aSex in the Bible.2fast 7aSexual ethics.2fast 7aCriticism, interpretation, etc.2fast 7aHistory.2fast08iOnline version:aCountryman, Louis William, 1941-tDirt, greed, & sex.bRev. ed.dMinneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, �2007w(OCoLC)761199442413Table of contentsuhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019477.html413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019477.html