Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART 1 Prolegomena -- 1 INTRODUCTION, PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS, METHOD AND PAULINE CONTEXT -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Bible translations -- 1.2 The scholarly debate -- Observance of Jewish dietary laws -- Comments -- Flesh -- Comments -- Sex or genitals -- Comments -- Gluttony or greed -- Comments -- Avoiding martyrdom -- Comments -- 1.3 Methodological considerations -- 1.4 Belly and body - the Pauline context of the study -- PART 2 The Graeco-Roman belly -- 2 THE BELLY AS A SIGN - ANCIENT PHYSIOGNOMICS -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 The stomach as a sign -- 2.2 Summary -- 3 THE BELLY IN ANCIENT MORAL PHILOSOPHY -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Euripides (born probably in the 480s BC) -- 3.2 Plato (c. 429-347 BC) -- 3.3 Xenophon (born around 430 BC) -- 3.4 Aristotle (384-322 BC) -- 3.5 Dio Chrysostom (AD c. 40/50-110) -- 3.6 Musonius Rufus (AD 30 - AD 101/102) -- 3.7 Epictetus (mid first century to second century AD) -- 3.8 Plutarch (AD c. 50 - c. 120) -- 3.9 Athenaeus (flourished c. AD 200) -- 3.10 Summary -- 4 ANCIENT CRITIQUE OF EPICUREANISM -- 4.0 Epicurus - the popularity and reputation of a doctrine -- 4.1 Cicero -- The proverbial figure of Sardanapalus -- 4.2 Seneca -- 4.3 Plutarch -- 4.4 Summary -- 5 BANQUETS - OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE BELLY -- 5.0 Introduction -- 5.1 Parties for pleasure -- 5.2 Seneca - the moral philosopher -- 5.3 Horace and Juvenal - two Roman satirists -- 5.4 Athenaeus and Alciphron -- 5.5 Summary -- PART 3 The appropriated belly -- 6 THE BELLY- TOPOS IN JEWISH-HELLENISTIC SOURCES -- 6.1 Sir. 23:6 -- 6.2 T. Rub. 2:1-3:8 -- 6.3 3 Macc. 7:10-11 -- 6.4 4 Maccabees -- 6.5 Aristeas to Philocrates 140-1 -- 6.6 T. Mos. 7:2-4 -- 6.7 Cairo Geniza Wisdom -- 7 THE BELLY IN PHILO'S WRITINGS -- 7.0 Introduction -- 7.1 Anthropology.

7.2 The 'geography' of the belly -- 7.3 The serpent crawling on its belly -- 7.4 Esau selling his birthright for the sake of his belly -- 7.5 Joseph and the servants of Pharaoh -- 7.6 Jewish customs as means of controlling the stomach -- 7.7 Fasts and Sabbaths -- 7.8 Food laws -- 7.9 Conversion - the safest way to rule the belly -- 7.10 Summary -- PART 4 Belly-worship and body according to Paul -- 8 THE LIFESTYLE OF CITIZENS OF THE HEAVENLY POLITEUMA - PHIL. 3:17-21 -- 8.0 Introduction -- 8.1 'Stand firm' and the rhetoric of examples -- 8.2 'Whose god is the belly' -- Self-loving citizens -- Shameful living -- 8.3 Opponents? -- 8.4 Belly-worship and body in Philippians -- 8.5 Summary -- 9 'SERVING THE BELLY' AS KINSHIP WITH SATAN - ROM. 16:17-20 -- 9.0 Introduction -- 9.1 Warning against deceivers -- 9.2 Worshipping the belly - Gen. 3:15, Satan and flattery -- 9.3 Why call the adversaries belly-worshippers? -- 9.4 'Serving the belly' and body in Romans -- 9.5 Summary -- 10 THE CORINTHIAN BELLY -- 10.0 Introduction -- 10.1 1 Cor. 15:32: Epicurean lifestyle versus faith in resurrection -- 10.2 1 Cor. 11:17-34: the Lord's Supper or stuffing one's own stomach? -- 10.3 1 Cor. 6:12-20: the Christian faith has implications for stomach and sex -- 10.4 1 Cor. 10:7 in context: the belly - a tempting force in Corinth as in the wilderness -- Introduction -- Line of thought -- Paul's argument in 1 Cor. 10:1-22 -- Reading 1 Cor. 10:1-13 in the light of its subtext -- Sex as well? -- 10.5 Belly and body in 1 Corinthians -- 10.6 Summary -- PART 5 The earliest expositors of Paul -- 11 THE BELLY-DICTA OF PAUL IN PATRISTIC LITERATURE -- 11.1 Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 - c. 215) -- 11.2 Tertullian (c. 160-c. 225) -- 11.3 Origen (c. 185-c. 254) -- 11.4 Cyprian (d. 258) -- 11.5 Novatian (d. 257-8) -- 11.6 Methodius of Olympus (d. c. 311) -- 11.7 Ambrosiaster (c. 300).

11.8 Pelagius (late fourth and early fifth centuries) -- 11.9 Jerome (c. 345-420) -- 11.10 John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) -- 11.11 Augustine of Hippo (354-430) -- 11.12 Severian of Gabala (fl. c. 400) -- 11.13 Tyrannius Rufinus (c. 345-411) -- 11.14 Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350-428) -- 11.15 Theodoret of Cyrrhus (c. 393-c. 460) -- 11.16 Peter Chrysologus (c. 400-450) -- 11.17 Gennadius of Marseilles (fl. 470) -- 11.18 Antiochus, the Patriarch of Antioch (d. 598) -- 11.19 John Climacus (c. 570-c. 649) -- 11.20 Summary -- PART 6 Conclusions -- 12 CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 12.1 Paul's critique of belly-worship in an ancient setting -- 12.2 Belly-worship and body in Paul's letters -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Works of reference -- Sources -- Secondary literature -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS -- INDEX OF GRAECO-ROMAN SOURCES -- INDEX OF OLD TESTAMENT, APOCRYPHA, PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AND OTHER JEWISH WRITINGS -- The Old Testament -- Old Testament Apocrypha -- Old Testament Pseudepigrapha -- Other Jewish Writings -- INDEX OF NEW TESTAMENT AND EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS -- The New Testament -- Early Christian writings.