Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians by David Wheeler-Reed (review)

• Autores: Helen Rhee
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 138-141
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • According to the author, "this shows just how widespread certain broader cultural patterns were in the ancient world" (60). [...]Temple Jews interpreted Gen 1.28 ("Be fruitful and multiply") and 2.24 ("Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh") as commandments and confined sex into marriage only for procreation (44). [...]the author underscores the "antifamily" aspect of subsequent early Christian development in the following chapter, culminating in the triumph of a monastic movement that "declared the celibate life to be the norm over" marriage in the Jovinian Controversy (85).