Life and death, Adiaphora, and Paul's rhetorical strategies

Novum Testamentum

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-54

  Jaquette, James L ^a  

^a NONE   (Zimbabwe)

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DOI: 10.1163/1568536962613531     Document Type: Article

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