Paul in Conflict with the Veil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783933372468)

Thomas Schirrmacher argues that from the biblical teaching that man is the head of woman (1 Cor 11:3) the Corinthians had drawn the false conclusions that in prayer a woman must be veiled (11:4-6) and a man is forbidden to be veiled (11:7), and that the wife exists for the husband but not the husband for the wife (11:8-9). Paul, however, rejected these conclusions and showed in 11:10-16 why the veiling of women did not belong to God's commandments binding upon all the Christian communities. After stating the thesis and presenting his alternative translation and exposition of 1 Cor 11:2-16, he considers the difficulties in the text, presents his alternative exposition in detail (in the form of thirteen theses), discusses quotations and irony in 1 Corinthians, and deals with other NT texts about women's clothing and prayer and about the subordination of wives. New Testament Abstracts 39 (1995) 1:154

Author: Thomas Schirrmacher
ISBN-10: 3933372461
ISBN-13: 9783933372468
Publisher: VTR Publications
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2007
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d