The Corinthian Body by Dale B. Martin (1995, Hardcover) 
The Corinthian Body by Dale B. Martin (1995, Hardcover)
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0300062052
ISBN-13: 9780300062052
Product ID: EPID107637
Description: An examination of Greco-Roman attitudes toward the metaphor of the body as a way of understanding the hierarchies of the world. Using Paul's example of the body of Christ, offered in his letters to the Corinthians, Martin looks at 1st-ce...
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Synopsis
An examination of Greco-Roman attitudes toward the metaphor of the body as a way of understanding the hierarchies of the world. Using Paul's example of the body of Christ, offered in his letters to the Corinthians, Martin looks at 1st-century perceptions of people and their societies, status, and subversion.

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Publication Date:1995-08-01

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Height:9.8 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:24.8 oz

Publisher's Note
In this intriguing discussion of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, Dale Martin contends that Paul's various disagreements with the Corinthians were the result of a fundamental conflict over the ideological construction of the human body.

Industry Reviews
"Martin's point of entry to this world [of first century Greece and Rome] is the way in which the human body was commonly constructed, both in itself and as a metaphor for much else. It was so far removed from the Catesian body-mind dichotomy which has, until recently, marked so many of our assumptions. Instead, the nature of the human being (with the male as distinctly the norm) was commonly seen as a hierarchical whole, whose elements (both, in our terms, physical and psychological) fused to each other, interacted and making, ideally, a single harmony. What was true of the individual was mirrored in the social entities, notably household and city, which were the larger scenes of his life."
Times Literary Supplement - J. Leslie Houlden (03/22/1996)

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