PAULINE PATERNITY IN 1 THESSALONIANS

Josephus views all relationships as hierarchical—be they male or female—and turns to the Torah for corroboration: ‘The woman, says the law, is in all things inferior to the man’ (Ap. 2.199). For Josephus, the parent-child relationship is an integral part of this hierarchical framework since this is not only part of God’s design but ... ................
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