Terrance Callan, «Partenoi in Corinth: 1 Cor 7,25-40» biblica, Vol. 97 (2016) 264-286 page 286

Vol 97 (2016)

Terrance Callan, «Partenoi in Corinth: 1 Cor 7,25-40», Vol. 97 (2016) 264-286

Interpreters differ significantly regarding the identity of the 'partenoi' discussed in 1 Cor 7,25-40. There is some uncertainty about whether they are men and women, or only women. And those who understand them as only women differ as to whether they are betrothed women, unmarried daughters, spouses in spiritual marriages, or young widows who are possible candidates for levirate marriage. I argue that the 'partenoi' are only women, and that they are unmarried daughters of Corinthian Christians. The argument is based mainly on usage of 'partenos' in literature written before, and at approximately the same time as, 1 Corinthians. In addition i offer an interpretation of 1 Cor 7,25-40, especially of vv. 36-38, that supports understanding the word as designating young, unmarried daughters.

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286 terraNCe CallaN appendix e: additional passages in which parqe,noj is the counterpart of gunh, and its cognates euripides: Electra 311, 945-946; The Phoenician Maidens 655-656 Herodotus: 5.6 Polybius: 12.6b.10 diodorus Siculus: 13.14.5; 13.89.3; 17.50.7; 19.8.4; 19.8.5; 26.12.4 dionysius of Halicarnassus: 4.36.1; 11.31.3; 11.31.4; 11.39.6; 19.1.2; 20.4.7 Philo: Somn. 2.185; Mos. 1.51; Spec. 2.24, 30; 3.169; 4.178, 223; Legat. 227; Q.E. 2.3b Josephus: A.J. 6.10.1 § 193; 17.11.2 § 309 Plutarch: Pyrrhus 27.6; De liberis educandis 12B; Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 189C; Mulierum virtutes 254C; Aetia Romana et Graeca 289a-B; De curiositate 518a; Quaestiones convivales 619a, 645d; Am- atorius 750C, 766e; Amatoriae narrationes 775C-d Soranus: Gynecology 1.31.1 (twice) dio Chrysostom: 2.29; 7.142; 11.29; 20.17; 75.8 Pausanias: 2.21.7; 2.34.12; 3.7.7; 5.13.10; 6.6.9; 6.20.3; 8.5.12; 10.22.4 Cassius dio: 59.26.7 Clement of alexandria: Stromata 3.12.88 See also the pairing of parqe,nouj and gametai/j in Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 381e; Cassius dio, 62.15.4.