Difficult texts: 1 Corinthians 5.5 – ‘Hand this man over to Satan …’
First Corinthians 5.5 is ‘difficult’ in two ways, in terms both of understanding its meaning and of its morally questionable instruction. The crucial phrase about handing the offender ‘over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh’ is best seen, following recent research, as a curse, akin to other...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2020]
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Theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 123, Issue: 5, Pages: 323-328 |
| RelBib Classification: | AZ New religious movements HC New Testament NBK Soteriology NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Curse Tablets
B Punishment B Bible. Corinthians 1. 5,5 B Morality B Curse B Death B Defixiones B Expulsion |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |