Paul's Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7: An African-Cameroonian Perspective provides readers with an innovative interpretation of Paul's pastoral and pedagogical approach and solutions to the multifaceted ethical problems presented to him by the Corinthian community, revealing a wide-ranging, complex, and flexible decision-making process.

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Alice Yafeh received her PhD in Biblical studies from the Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Yafeh is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Biblical Studies at Azusa Pacific University. She is also the author of «The Liberative Power of Silent Agency: Reading Mary (Luke 10:38 42) through the Eyes of Cameroonian Rural Women» in Postcolonial Perspectives in African Biblical Interpretations, edited by Musa Dube, Andrew Mbuvi, and Dora Mbuwayesango.

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Contents: A Rhetorical-Exegetical Analysis of 1 Corinthians 7 The Cultural and Linguistic Context of 1 Corinthians 7: Intertexture, Social, and Ideological Textures From Paul to His Interpreters: A Selective Cross-Cultural Interpretive History 1 Corinthians 7 and the Debate over Marriage and Celibacy during the Patristic Period Augustine s Existential Struggles with Sexual Lust Marriage and Virginity in the Reformation Era: Martin Luther and John Calvin Polygyny: A Test Case for an Afro-Womanist-Feminist Cultural Hermeneutics Moving from Paul s Context to the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon Polygynous Marriages in Cameroon Approach to the Question of Polygyny in the PCC.