TY - BOOK AU - Balch,David L TI - Let wives be submissive: the domestic code in 1 Peter T2 - Monograph series - Society of Biblical Literature SN - 9780891304289 AV - BS2795 PY - 1981/// CY - Chico, California PB - Scholars Press KW - Bible KW - Peter, 1st KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Families KW - Biblical teaching KW - Domestic relations KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Stoics N1 - Bibliography: pages 151.-167; 4.es; 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; 2 ER -