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Проблематика гендера в коринфских проповедях и посланиях апостола Павла
Gender topic in the Corinthian sermons and Epistles of the Apostle Paul

Author(s): Konstantin Sergeevich Sharov
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Gender history, Ancient World, Philosophy of Religion, Biblical studies, Hermeneutics, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: the Apostle Paul; early Christian preaching; Corinth; Aphrodite Temple; Aphroditecult; hetæras; sacral prostitution;

Summary/Abstract: In the paper, several well-known passages from the Epistles of the Apostle Paul are studied that raise the women’s issue in Corinth and still cause many discrepancies and contradictory assessments from masculine bias and chauvinism in early Christian preaching to St Paul’s personal misogyny. The author shows that these places should be interpreted as a continuation of the Corinthian sermons of the Apostle, deliberately composed by Paul in the context of non-Christian Greco-Roman culture of Corinth revived by Julius Cæsar. At the heart of this Corinthian culture, there was the famous temple of Aphrodite, sacred prostitution and the exquisitely hedonistic hetæras society.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 267-277
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian