Corinth_Women

Corinth Women Background Paper The topic for this paper is the covering of the women’s heads in Corinth. The commentary points out that Middle Eastern women had to cover their hair because it was an object of lust in antiquity. It was perceived that if a woman allowed her hair to be seen uncovered it would cause men to lust after her, causing them to sin. This practice was not held though by everyone especially since Corinth had become a Greek and Roman city. Many of the wealthier women chose to leave their hair uncovered to show off their fashionable and attractive hair styles. Keener points out that this section is intended to settle this culture clash of what he calls upper class fashion against lower class concern that decency is being violated. Lastly Keener states that these verses are a section of arguments aimed at convincing the Corinthian women to cover their heads in worship. Something else of interest from this is that Keener points out that Paul’s churches allow much women, hair, today, people, woman, section, points, out, lust, keener, heads, covered, church, women’s, wear, uncovered, should, settle, paper, off, men, head, doesn’t, cover, corinthian, corinth, concern, class, causing, after, writing, worship, woman’s, wealthier