For a very good and thoughtful critique of Boswell's earlier book (on Homosexuality in the Christian trad.), esp. Boswell's exegesis of Rom 1, see R. B. Hays, "Relations Natural and Unnatural: A Response to John Boswell's Exegesis of Romans 1," _Journal of Religious Ethics_ 14/1(1986), 184-215. Larry Hurtado, Religion, Univ. of Manitoba