Let wives be submissive : the domestic code in 1 Peter /

Balch, David L,

Let wives be submissive : the domestic code in 1 Peter / [print] David L. Balch. - Chico, California : Scholars Press, (c)1981. - 196 pages ; 24 cm. - Monograph series - Society of Biblical Literature ; no. 26 . - Society of Biblical Literature monograph series ; no. 26. .



Contemporary interpretations of 1 Peter and of household ethics in the New Testament -- Pt. I. Philosophical discussions "concerning the constitution" and "concerning household management." Plato, Middle Platonists, and Stobaeus ; Aristotle, the Peripatetics, and three dependent writers ; The topos "concerning household management" in eclectic Stoics, Hellenistic Jews, and Neopythagoreans -- Pt. II. The apologetic use of the subordination ethic by minority religious communities in Roman society. Greco-Roman criticism of Eastern religions ; The apologetic function of the household code in 1 Peter.



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Bible.--Peter, 1st--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Families--Biblical teaching.
Domestic relations--Biblical teaching.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Stoics.

BS2795 BS2795.B174.L489 1981