Kenneth E. Bailey

Kenneth E. Bailey (1930–2016) spent forty years studying and teaching the New Testament in the Middle East. His Through Peasant Eyes and Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes draw the gospels into conversation with the cultural world they came from.

20122 essays

Church and Culture · 2012 Issue 5 EditionThe Women Prophets of Corinth: A Study of Aspects of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

1 Corinthians 11 has supplied 'regimental colors' for centuries of arguments about women in worship. Bailey reads the passage in its larger literary context (1 Cor 11-14 as a single…

November 30, 2012

Church and Culture · 2012 Issue 5 EditionPaul’s Theology of Sexual Practice: A Study of 1 Corinthians 6:9-20

Bailey brings thirty-five years of work on 1 Corinthians to bear on chapter 6's strenuous teaching about sexual practice. Paul wrote the letter for the Corinthians and for everyone everywhere…

November 30, 2012

Kenneth E. Bailey

"Free to all who ask."