TY - BOOK AU - Countryman,L.William TI - Dirt, greed and sex: sexual ethics in the New Testament and their implications for today SN - 0334028574 AV - BS2545.S36 C68 2001 2545 .S36 C68 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - St. Alban's Place, London PB - SCM Press KW - Sex in the Bible KW - Sexual ethics KW - History KW - Sex customs N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; I. Dirt; What is Purity; Israel's Basic Purity Law; Purity in First-Century Judaism; Purity and Christianity-- A First-Century Historian's Interpretation; Purity in the Gospels; Paul and Purity; The New Testament and Sexual Purity; 2. Greed; Women and Children as Property in the ancient Mediterranean World; Family and sexual property in the gospels; Paul and sexual property; The New Testament on Sexual property; 3. Sex; New Testament Sexual Ethics and Today's World ER -