1 Corinthians
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This compact commentary on 1 Corinthians is both readable and full of insights that will engage students, ministers, and scholars alike. The Apostle Paul writes to a relatively new church in which members are failing to maintain solidarity with other members. They struggle to find their unique place in Roman society as Gentile followers of Jewish leaders that proclaim Christ as Lord. Their many problems include competition over leadership and social prestige, sexual impropriety, household conflicts, idol foods, table fellowship, protocols on gender and the use of spiritual gifts, and confusion about death, immortality, and Christ's return. Oropeza addresses Paul's response to these and other issues as he engages ancient biblical, Jewish, and Greco-Roman sources along with recent scholarship. This is a must-read for those who want to understand the Corinthian situation and Paul's response in a new way.
B. J. Oropeza
B. J. Oropeza (PhD, Durham University) is professor in the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. His many works include Exploring Second Corinthians, Exploring Intertextuality, articles in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation and The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology, and studies and translations in the Common English Bible and the Wesley Study Bible. He is the founder of the Intertextuality in the New Testament Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and is on the editorial board of the Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity series.
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