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  • From: Jill and Dale Walker <jilldale AT rcnchicago.com>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: corpus-paul digest: October 09, 2001
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 07:40:20 -0500

I was trying to sever the connection between self-rule and Pharisaism.
The desire for the former does not require the latter. The former
is the common aspiration of civic and ethnic groups throughout the
Roman emire, as evidence by inscriptional evidence. One needs only
pride (which can be a good thing) and a sense of honor to desire self-rule.
And the desire was so ubiquitous that I think it is safe to regard it as
a point of common values to which one could take recourse without
other motivation.

Dale Walker
Chicago

At 04:27 PM 10/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Dale Walker wrote:
>
>
>>Earlier in 1 Cor Paul wants Christians to handle their own disputes
>>and not air their dirty laundry before non-Christian judges. This
>>advice is commonplace wisdom among ethnic groups. We'll handle
>>things on our  own in our own way. This does set up a boundary.
>
>Donald Harman Acheson, in "Saint Saul," makes this point also, but sees it
>as a kind of atavistic yearning for the Pharisaic way that occasionally
>emerges in Paul, despite his attitude to the Law in other places. Some
>accommodations to the pagan world are just too much for him to encompass.
>Acheson sees this also in Paul's attitude to sharing meals which
>incorporate meat used in pagan worship, and to women speaking in church or
>appearing in public with long hair showing. Sometimes Paul goes gently,
>using the "remember those who are weaker" argument; but this is a way of
>forbidding certain actions in a way that he hopes is inoffensive to his
>more liberal readers. In Corinthians in particular Paul is worried by too
>many syncretistic tendencies appearing among his flock.
>
>Eric Potts
>Lowestoft, England.
>
>
>Weekly notes on the Revised Common Lectionary at:
>www.revpotts.freeserve.co.uk/lectionaryzone/lectionaryset
>
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