TY  - BOOK
AU  - Countryman,Louis William
TI  - Dirt, greed, & sex: sexual ethics in the New Testament and their implications for today 
SN  - 9780800638481
AV  - BS2545.S36 C68 2007
U1  - 241/.6609015 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Minneapolis, Minn.
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Sex in the Bible
KW  - Sexual ethics
KW  - History
KW  - Sex customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and indexes; What 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
N2  - This 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019477.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019477.html
ER  -