Shalom Theology

Reading the Bible toward shalom

Short videos and articles on the passages that have been misused to wound people, with the history of the words, the scholars who studied them, and what the texts can mean when we read them for wholeness, justice and peace.

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Arsenokoitês and malakos: what two Greek words did and didn't mean

Sexuality and Scripture · 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10

A timeline of how two Greek words in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10 were used in the first centuries (c. 60-400 AD), and how English translations from Wyclif in 1380 to the present rendered them, following Dale B. Martin.