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When Men Wore Veils to Worship: the Historical Context of 1 Corinthians 11.4

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Richard Oster
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1 Corinthians 11. 2–16, because of the social concerns of much contemporary exegesis and theology, has provided a rich vein from which to quarry materials for current feminist agendas. However, exegetes have tended to neglect the ‘male issue’ in this text and the Corinthian context underlying it. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the most plausible matrix of the practices addressed by Paul in 1 Cor 11. 4 when he refers to . Numerous exegetical issues and ancient social practices relevant to a full study of 1 Cor 11. 2–16 do not fall within the purview of this narrow investigation. Questions such as the origin and character of Paul's views of women as well as their apparel, and the question of ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish customs concerning the veiling of women in their domestic and street apparel will not be broached here.

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New Testament Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 1988 , pp. 481 - 505
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page 484 note 7 Bousset's, Wilhelm observation, ‘Es handelt sich um eine Frage der Sitte. Der freie griechische Mann geht unbedeckten Hauptes, im Zustand höchster Trauer nur verhüllt er sein Haupt’ (in Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments. Edited by Bousset, W. and Heitmüller, W.. 3rd ed.Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1918, vol. 2:128)Google Scholar is hardly a relevant comment on 11. 4 unless Christian men at Corinth worshipped primarily ‘im Zustand höchster Trauer’.

page 484 note 8 These commentators and authors reveal little, if any, critical awareness of germane works on sacred laws regulating participation in pagan worship, such as Wächter, Theodor, Reinheitsvorschriften im griechischen Kult (RGVV, 9.1. Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1910)Google Scholar or Sokolowski, Franciszek, Lois sacrées de l'Asie Mineure (Ecole Française d'Athènes, 9. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1955);Google Scholaridem, Lois sacrées des cités grecques. Supplément (Ecole Française d'Athènes, 11. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1962);Google Scholaridem, Lois sacrées des cités grecques (Ecole Française d'Athènes, 18. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1969)Google Scholar.

page 485 note 1 Even so renowned and erudite a scholar as Hans Lietzmann failed in his treatment of 1 Corinthians 11.4 to investigate adequately this text of Plutarch. Lietzmann, Hans, An die Korinther I/II. 5th ed. Handbuch zum Neuen Testament (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1969) 53;Google Scholar although Barclay, William, The Letters to the Corinthians rev. ed. The Daily Study Bible Series (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975) 97 notedGoogle Scholar, ‘This is one of these passages which have a purely local and temporary significance’, he only relates this to the Corinthians’ reputation for licentiousness (99); Godet, F. ironically refers to the appropriate literary evidence but then concludes that, ‘it is not probable that abuses arose in that direction [of men], especially in Greece. The demeanour which becomes the man is only mentioned to bring out by contrast that which alone is becoming in the woman’, Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1957) vol. 2:104, 113Google Scholar.

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page 486 note 2 E.g., consult footnotes no. 5 page 497, 2 page 499, 1 page 500, 1 page 501.

page 486 note 3 Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome, ‘The Non-Pauline Character of I Corinthians 11:2–16?’, JBL 95 (1976) 621Google Scholar. Isaksson, A., Marriage and Ministry in the New Temple, 166Google Scholar argued that this phrase ‘means having long hair hanging down, not having one's head covered’.

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page 487 note 1 Barrett, C. K., A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians (London: Adam & Clark, 1968) 249–50;Google ScholarBruce, F. F., 1 and 2 Corinthians (Greenwood, S.C.: Attic Press, 1971) 104Google Scholar. Lenski, R. C. H., The Interpretation of St. Paul's First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians (Columbus, Ohio: Wartburg Press, 1946) 435;Google ScholarConybeare, W. J. and Howson, J. S., The Life and Epistles of St. Paul (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1877) 402Google Scholar.

page 487 note 2 Delling, Gerhard, Paulus' Stellung zu Frau und Ehe (Beiträge zur Wissenschaft von Alten und Neuen Testament, 4th ser., 5. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1931) 98Google Scholar.

page 487 note 3 Oepke, Albrecht, ‘κατακαλύπτω’ in TDNT (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1965) 3:563Google Scholar. Jaubert, Annie, ‘Le voile des femmes’, NTS 18 (1971–2) 420Google Scholar asserts, without evidence, ‘Ce n'est pas du côté des cultes païens qu'il faut chercher les références de Paul…. Il faut donc nous tourner du côté juif pour éclairer la coutume masculine de se couvrir ou de se découvrir la tête.’

page 487 note 4 Strack, Hermann L. and Billerbeck, Paul, Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch. Vol. 3 Die Briefe des Neuen Testaments und die Offenbarung Johannis (München: C. H. Beck'sche, 1954) 423–6Google Scholar. ‘Wie die jüdische Männerwelt in der neutestamentlichen Zeit durch keinerlei Sitte gebunden war, im gewöhnlichen Leben mit bedecktem Kopf einherzugehen, so hat auch für sie keinerlei Verpflichtung bestanden, bei religiösen u. gottesdienstlichen Handlungen vor Gott bedeckten Hauptes zu erscheinen’, 424.

page 487 note 5 Strack, and Billerbeck, , Kommentar zum NT, ‘Die ältere Halakha schreibt nur vor, dass der Mann nicht nackt vor Gott hintrete, darum soll er beim Rezitieren des Schema seine Blösse verhüllen u. beim Gebet sich bis an die Brust bedecken. Von einer Bedeckung des Kopfes beim Gebet weiss also die ältere Zeit nichts…. Unsre Quellen bieten hierüber nur spärliches Material; doch scheint zu Anfang des 4. Jahrhunderts das Beten bedeckten Hauptes bereits in weiteren Kreisen feststehende Sitte gewesen zu sein’, 424–5Google Scholar.

page 488 note 1 I owe the knowledge of this Tosefta text to Prof. Morton Smith.

page 488 note 2 One would expect Paul to employ terms such as εỦχή, ὂρκος or ρισμός for the Jewish notion of absolving vows; cf. LXX at Numbers 30.

page 488 note 3 ‘And they do not absolve vows either while riding on an ass, while walking, or while standing, but only wrapped in a cloak and sitting down’, Pisha (Pesahim) 2. 16 in The Tosefta. Second Division (Moed) (New York: KTAV, 1981) 122Google Scholar. It is also striking that this particular vignette from the Tosefta Pisha (Pesahim) is completely lacking in the Mishna Pesahim.

page 488 note 4 The introduction to Victor Furnish's II Corinthians, The Anchor Bible, 32A (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984) 4–22Google Scholar is a mixture of good and bad information. Disappointment awaits those seeking helpful information about Corinth from, for example, Bruce, F. F., New Testament History (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980) 296–7Google Scholar, idem, Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1977) 248–79;Google ScholarKee, Howard and Young, Franklin W., The Living World of the New Testament (London: Dayton, Longman & Todd, 1960) 251–3;Google ScholarKoester, Helmut, Introduction to the New Testament, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982);Google ScholarMadvig, D. H., ‘Corinth’, in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Edited by Bromiley, G. W. et al. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979) vol. 1:772–4;Google ScholarBornkamm, Günther, Paul (New York: Harper & Row, 1969) 68–77Google Scholar.

page 488 note 5 Many classical scholars and New Testament scholars have blindly followed the ancient literary tradition that Corinth was totally destroyed in 146 B.C. and remained desolate until 44 B.C. The sources for this spurious literary tradition and the archaeological data that refutes it have been conveniently assembled by Wiseman, James, ‘Corinth and Rome I:228 B.C.-A.D. 267’, in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (henceforth ANRW). Edited by Temporini, H. and Haase, W. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1979) II.7.1:491–6Google Scholar.

page 489 note 1 Bowersock, Glen W., Augustus and the Greek World (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965) 67Google Scholar.

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page 489 note 4 Gellius, AulusNoctes Atticae 16.13.9Google Scholar. The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961) vol. 3, 181Google Scholar. ‘For they [i.e. colonies] did not come into citizenship from without, nor grow from roots of their own, but they are as it were transplanted from the State and have all the laws and institutions of the Roman people, not those of their own choice. This condition, although it is more exposed to control and less free, is nevertheless thought preferable and superior because of the greatness and majesty of the Roman people, of which those colonies seem to be miniatures, as it were, and in a way copies.’ Sed ‘coloniarum’ alia necessitudo est; non enim veniunt extrinsecus in civitatem nec suis radicibus nituntur, sed ex civitate quasi propagatae sunt et Tura institutaque omnia populi Romani, non sui arbitrii, habent. Quae tamen condicio, cum sit magis obnoxia et minus libera, potior tamen et praestabilior existimatur propter amplitudinem maiestatemque populi Romani, cuius istae coloniae quasi effigies parvae simulacraque esse quaedam videntur, et simul quia obscura oblitterataque sunt municipiorum Tura, quibus uti iam per innotitiam non queunt.

page 490 note 1 Salmon, , Roman Colonization, 148Google Scholar. When Livy writes of the denizens of the Roman colony Fidenae that ‘many of the Fidenates, having had Romans among them as colonists, knew Latin’ (Livy ab Urbe Condita 1.27.9), he can hardly be describing a unique phenomenon.

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page 491 note 3 For a general treatment of freedmen in the late Republic and early Empire consult Treggiari, Susan, Roman Freedmen during the Late Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969)Google Scholar and Duff, A. M., Freedmen in the Early Roman Empire (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1958);Google Scholar cf also Hartigan, , The Poets and the Cities, 11–12Google Scholar.

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page 492 note 2 (Ps) Dio Chrysostom, Corinthiaca 37.26.

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page 493 note 2 Mills, Harrianne, ‘Greek Clothing Regulations: Sacred and Profane’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie and Epigraphik 55 (1984) 255–65Google Scholar is correct in pointing to the place of sacred clothing regulations in Greek religion. She has not, however, disproven the traditional understanding of the special Roman ethos concerning apparel. Phyllis Culham recently rejoined Mills' article and noted, ‘It should be clear now that the Greek and Roman regulations in question share a number of significant characteristics and that a comparative treatment can be justified, but it would not do to omit mention of some differences between cultures which must be taken into account.… It is obvious that none of the Greek societies in question obtrusively marked differences in age, status, class, sex, and religious or political role with color-coding and decorative bands as the Romans did.’ ‘Again, what Meaning Lies in Colour?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie and Epigraphik 64 (1986) 239Google Scholar.

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page 494 note 3 Latte, Kurt, Römische Religionsgeschichte. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, V, 4 (München: C. H. Beck'sche, 1967) 392Google Scholar. A somewhat softer interpretation of Roman attitudes toward prayer is given by Wagenvoort, Hendrik, ‘Wesenszüge altrömischer Religion’, in ANRW I.2: 356–9Google Scholar.

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page 495 note 1 Cicero, , de Senectute 10.34Google Scholar Nullo imbri, nullo frigore adduci ut capite operto sit. A similar thought is seen in Varro Menippease frag. 156 (= 161).

page 495 note 2 Horace, , SermonesGoogle Scholar 2.3.37 Vellem mitere operto me capite in flumen.

page 495 note 3 Petronius 57 Homo inter homines sum, capite aperto ambulo, assem aerarium nemini debeo.

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page 495 note 6 The occasion for the building of the Ara Pacis Augustae is specifically noted in Monumentum Ancyranum 12.2 with these words: aram Pacis Augustae senatus pro reditu meo consacrandam censuit ad campum Martium in qua magistratus et sacerdotes virginesque Vestales anniversarium sacrificium facere iussit and can be dated approximately 10 B.C. On the Ara Pacis Augustae one should consult Riemann, H., ‘Pacis Ara Augustae’, in Paulys Realencyclopädie (1943) vol. 18.2: 2082–107;Google ScholarRyberg, I. S., Rites of the State Religion in Roman Art, 38–48;Google ScholarMoretti, Giuseppe, The Ara Pacis Augustae. Series of Itineraries of the Museums, Galleries and Monuments in Italy, 67 (Rome: Instituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1975);Google ScholarSimon, Erika, Ara Pacis Augustae (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1968);Google ScholarBonanno, Anthony, Portraits and Other Heads on Roman Historical Relief up to the Age of Septimius Severus. BAR Supp. Ser., 6 (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1976) 23–34;Google ScholarThe Cambridge Ancient History, Edited by Cook, S. A. et al. , Volume of Plates IV, prepared by C. T. Seltman (Cambridge: University Press, 1960) 112–24;Google ScholarWilson, Lillian M., The Roman Toga. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, 1, Edited by Robinson, D. M. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1924) 43–60Google Scholar is more concerned with clothing than its religious significance. Ryberg, Rites of the State Religion in Roman Art, 44 notesGoogle Scholar, ‘The flamines in their official dress appear on the Ara Pacis for the first time in art.…’

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page 497 note 3 In addition to the artifactual data cited in footnote 1 above, one should consult footnote nos. 4 p. 496, 4 and 5 below, l p. 498, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 p. 499, 1 p. 500, 1, 2, 4 and 5 p. 501.

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page 499 note 3 Varro, de Lingua Latina 5.15.84, flamines … capite velato erant semper.

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page 500 note 2 Toutain, J., ‘Sacrificium’, in Dictionnaire des antiquités, 4.2 (1911) 977Google Scholar ‘Cette disposition de la toge [i.e. capite velato] est parfaitement visible sur un grand nombre de monuments.’

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page 500 note 4 Dessau, ILS no. 6368; cf. no. 3785; for the social and architectural aspects of this statue and the building in which it was erected see August Mau, Pompeii, Its Life and Art (New York: MacMillan Company, 1902) 110–48; 445–55Google Scholar and Moeller, Walter O., ‘The Building of Eumachia: A Reconsideration’, AJA 76 (1972) 323–7CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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page 501 note 5 Aeneis 3.543–7 Tum numina sancta precamur Palladis armisonae, quae prima accepit ovantis, et capita ante aras Phrygio velamur amictu, praeceptisque Heleni, dederat quae maxima, rite Iunoni Argivae iussos adolemus honores. Virgil, vol. 1, 385Google Scholar. ‘Then we pray to the holy power of Pallas, queen of clashing arms, who first welcomed our cheers, before the altar veiled our heads in Phrygian robe, and, following the urgent charge which Helenus had given, duly offer to Argive Juno the burnt sacrifice prescribed.’

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page 504 note 4 Cf. footnote 6 page 499.

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