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The Journal of Theological Studies 2008 59(1):63-95; doi:10.1093/jts/flm141
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The Roots of a ‘Libertine’ Slogan in 1 Corinthians 6:18

Jay E. Smith

Dallas Theological Seminary

Correspondence: jsmith{at}dts.edu


  Abstract

Taking as its starting point Jerome Murphy-O’Connor's thesis that 1 Cor. 6:18b (‘every sin that a person commits is outside the body’) represents a Corinthian slogan, this essay suggests that a social, cultural, and religious matrix existed at Corinth from which the Corinthians could easily have constructed a slogan similar to that which Murphy-O’Connor envisages. Available evidence suggests that this slogan was developed, in part, by the convergence of at least two major tributaries: (a) a non-Christian or Hellenistic-Roman stream (including popular philosophy and incipient Gnosticism), and (b) a Christian or Jesuanic current, flowing most probably from Paul.

I would like to express my gratitude to the participants of the seminar, ‘Social World of the New Testament’ (chaired by D. G. Horrell and P. Oakes) at the British New Testament Conference, Liverpool, 2005, for their help in refining this essay, which is dedicated to Dr. Harold W. Hoehner on the occassion of his seventieth birthday.


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