Keys to First Corinthians Revisiting the Major Issues [Hardcover]

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's reputation as a recognized expert on the Corinthian correspondence has been built on the original solutions he has offered to perennial problems. Brought together for the first time in one volume, each of the sixteen articles anthologised here deals with one or more verses in 1 Corinthians that have baffled scholars for generations. Throughout the collection the author dialogues with the opinions of colleagues, responding to and building on their accurate observations, and explaining in detail why certain solutions are viable whilst others are implausible.
A newly written 'reception history' has been appended to each article to bring the collection completely up to date. Although not a commentary on 1 Corinthians, this volume deals thoroughly with all the major problems of the most interesting of the Pauline letters.

1. Co-Authorship in the Corinthian Correspondence
2. 1 Corinthians 5:3-5
3. Corinthian Slogans in 1 Cor 6:12-20
4. The Divorced Woman in 1 Cor 7:10-11
5. Works without Faith in 1 Cor 7:14
6. 1 Cor 8:6 - Cosmology or Soteriology
7. Food and Scriptual Gifts in 1 Cor 8:8
8. Freedom or the Ghetto (1 Cor 8:1-13;10:23-11:1)
9. The Non-Pauline Character of 1 Cor 11:2-16
10. Sex and Logic in 1 Cor 11:2-16
11. 1 Cor 11:2-16 Once Again
12. House Churches and the Eucharist
13. Eucharist and Community in First Corinthians
14. Tradition and Redaction in 1 Cor 15:3-7
15. 'Baptized for the Dead' (1 Cor 15:29). A Corinthian Slogan?
16. Interpolations in 1 Corinthians

Professor Murphy O'Connor is Professor of New Testament, Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem and author of numerous books and articles includingThe Holy Land: An Archaeological Guide,Paul: A Critical Life, andPaul: His Story.