Jude And The Ungodly Christians
The discussion of the end-time false Christians begins with a programmatic statement describing the licentiousness of these, the contemporary ungodly who crept into the community of the saints Jude 4 and concludes with a saying of the apostles38 predicting the coming of these licentious end-time teachers. This final apocalyptic warning cautions the church to watch out for the mockers of the last-days who follow their own ungodly desires Jude 18 . Thus, the charge of licentiousness repeated in a...
Male Dalliance
As we have seen, adultery committed by freeborn women was viewed as a horrific sign of the depravity of the accused woman, her family, and even her city. But what about the adulteries of men In terms of Roman law, a man who had sexual intercourse with a freeborn youth, either male or female, was guilty of stuprum D 48.5.35, Modestinus .186 Intercourse with a widow or a divorc e who retained her rank as a matron was also stuprum D 48.5.9, 11 . Married citizen women were off-limits, though the...
Acknowledgments
This project began as a dissertation written at Columbia University under the direction of Vincent L. Wimbush, currently professor of religion at Claremont Graduate University. One could not have asked for a better advisor to him I remain forever in debt. Roger S. Bagnall, professor of history and classics at Columbia University, and Elizabeth A. Castelli, associate professor of religion at Barnard College, read numerous drafts, offering invaluable, extensive, and detailed advice. Their...
Let Women Be Women And Men Be Men
Another example of Paul's concern for the sexual propriety of the saints can be found in his instructions regarding the veiling of women during worship.142 Paul's insistence that women veil themselves no other practice can be recognized among the churches of God 1 Cor 11 16 was tied to his anxiety about the dangers of desire and his worries about unnatural sex. Men must be men and women must be women, even or especially while praying and prophesying, Paul argues. Hence, women should wear veils...
The Depravity Of The Gentiles
The portrait of man and woman offered in these sources has much in common with the sources discussed in the previous chapter. Apocryphal literature such as Tobit and Sirach recommended that Judean men control their desires, be wary of seductive women, and keep careful watch over their households. The nation of Israel could be imagined as a woman and, therefore, the heroic deeds of one Judean or Israelite woman could stand for the prestige, and even the manliness, of the entire community. Though...
Whos on Top Sex Talk Power and Resistance
For all of the titillation about thongs and cigars, the story of the impeachment and trial of William Jefferson Clinton was not so much about sex as it was about power. Peter Baker, The Breach Inside the Impeachment and Trial of When has discourse about sex ever been exclusively about sex Moreover, has there ever been a time when sex itself was not also about power Peter Baker's observation that the Clinton scandal was about power states the obvious to those who have followed the debates of...