Paul’s Curse of Corinthians: Restraining Rivals with Fear and Voces Mysticae (1 Cor 16:22)

In 1 Cor 16:22, Paul concludes his letter with a curse against anyone that does not love the Lord followed immediately by the Aramaic expression µαράνα θά. Curses were used in antiquity to restrain rivals by threatening to inflict them with harm or death. Voces mysticae—mystically powerful foreign l...

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1. VerfasserIn: Fotopoulos, John 1967- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2014
In: Novum Testamentum
Jahr: 2014, Band: 56, Heft: 3, Seiten: 275-309
weitere Schlagwörter:B 1 Cor 16:22 curses anathema voces mysticae defixiones Maranatha rhetoric
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Zusammenfassung:In 1 Cor 16:22, Paul concludes his letter with a curse against anyone that does not love the Lord followed immediately by the Aramaic expression µαράνα θά. Curses were used in antiquity to restrain rivals by threatening to inflict them with harm or death. Voces mysticae—mystically powerful foreign language words—were frequently employed in curses and many were derived from Hebrew or Aramaic. Curses were widely feared and numerous curses have been discovered in Roman Korinthia. Paul’s conditional curse in 16:22 serves as a final persuasive technique to change the Corinthians’ factional behavior by restraining his rivals through their fear of curses and the power of µαράνα θά as voces mysticae.
ISSN:1568-5365
Enthält:In: Novum Testamentum
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341453