Dirt, Greed, and Sex

Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today

By: Louis William Countryman

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In Dirt, Greed, and Sex, L. William Countryman shows how biblical conceptions regarding sexual behavior arose from concerns for purity and from cultures in which women and children were often conceived as property. What biblical texts say about sex often arises from concerns about dirt and greed.
This newly revised edition of Dirt, Greed, and Sex takes up recent studies of sexual ethics in light of the biblical materials. A new chapter evaluates recent proposals for a normative "ethic of creation," and in a concluding chapter Countryman offers his own positive statement of a New Testament ethic.

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Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 7
Dirt
What Is Purity?	p. 9
Israel's Basic Purity Law	p. 17
Purity in First-Century Judaism	p. 46
Purity and Christianity: A First-Century Historian's Interpretation	p. 65
Purity in the Gospels	p. 77
Paul and Purity	p. 92
The New Testament and Sexual Purity	p. 124
Greed
Women and Children as Property in the Ancient Mediterranean World	p. 144
Household and Sexual Property in the Gospels	p. 164
Paul and Sexual Property	p. 185
The New Testament on Sexual Property	p. 215
Sex
Are Other Principles of Sexual Ethics at Work in the New Testament?	p. 230
New Testament Sexual Ethics and Today's World	p. 253
Abbreviations	p. 284
Bibliography	p. 285
Notes	p. 295
Index	p. 330
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