This is the Baymau podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we will take a trip to Corneth for an examination of the first letter to that complex city.

Yes, sir. All right, it was necessary to go verse by verse through Galatians. And hopefully we saw why.

Since I believe it crucial to understanding the world of the New Testament personally.

But Romans, we had to do Romans verse by verse since everyone's going to argue with all of my theology and they're going to do it from Romans.

I had to deal with Romans verse by verse. And I don't know if we're going to do any other verse by verse. I want to slow down with Hebrews. Hebrews is one of my favorite books.

Not going to do verse by verse. We're going to slow down. And we're going to slow down through Revelation because, duh. I got to do that, right?

I guess so. But so I wanted to present my perspective on those books without dodging passages or leaving anything out. And now we're going to pick up the pace like we did in session one and two.

And we're going to survey the rest of Paul's letters. We're going to do like a book an episode. Some of them are going to be short.

And again, we're going to ignore chronology. And I'm going to turn my sights to Corinthians next first and second. Now we're just going to make people upset because people are going to think I'm dodging this passage or that thing or whatever we're just going to because we're not doing verse by verse. We're just not going to do it.

We don't have that kind of time. We're not going to do it. So we're going to be. So I'm sorry. Let me just say I'm sorry upfront. Sorry that we won't deal with your passage.

It's okay. We name the future. I reserve the right to come back to something later.

Yeah. And and I'm going to kind of take a, especially first Corinthians, I'm going to do something really weird. It's not typical for me. I'm not going to go in order. I'm going to like, I'm going to be shooting like all over the book of first Corinthians to try to talk about some of the big things big, big themes.

And while I'm thinking of it, let's recommend a book. Brent, we didn't, it's been a while since we recommended a good source. So there's a book called Paul through Middle Eastern eyes by Kenneth Bailey.

Talk about Kenneth Bailey before great New Testament scholar, literary scholar. And Paul through Middle Eastern eyes. It's going to hit on a few different books, but it's really going to be kind of focused on on Corinthians.

So it's a good book for Corinthians, but it's got some other things to other bits and pieces of Paul's letters and he's going to be a literary scholar. So he's going to say this and that and you may not understand this or agree with that or like that nuance, but a really great. He's not easy, even going to say things are going to go.

Maybe even against some of the things that I say or whatever, but just a great source and I totally trust and love Kenneth Bailey as a scholar. So we'll recommend that book. We'll put it in the show notes there.

And that's a great book to read if you've enjoyed Kenneth Bailey before you'll enjoy that one as well.

Hopefully you're recommended of his before. Let's see. I believe we might have recommended poet and peasant through peasant size. Right combination volume.

And he also wrote Jesus through Middle Eastern eyes. You wrote a lot of books actually. It's quite a handful of them, but those are some that we've recommended before. So yeah, good, good stuff.

All right. So I see a brief note on the context of Corinth. Let's do that. Corinth found itself as a major, major port city to the world of Greco Asia. Like one of the big ones.

You said it was a complex city, a very complex city. Yeah, this centralized port made Corinth a melting pot of culture. Hence it's complexity. Not so much in its structure.

I don't know anything about the engineering of Corinth, but definitely when it comes to the people group, the demographic, who was there. It was the most it was one of the most eclectic cities in the entire Roman Empire.

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