RT Book
T1 Sarcasm in Paul's letters
T2 Society for New Testament studies monograph series
A1 Pawlak, Matthew 1991-
LA English
PP Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1831898705
AB In this book, Matthew Pawlak offers the first treatment of sarcasm in New Testament studies. He provides an extensive analysis of sarcastic passages across the undisputed letters of Paul, showing where Paul is sarcastic, and how his sarcasm affects our understanding of his rhetoric and relationships with the Early Christian congregations in Galatia, Rome, and Corinth. Pawlak's identification of sarcasm is supported by a dataset of 400 examples drawn from a broad range of ancient texts, including major case studies on Septuagint Job, the prophets, and Lucian of Samosata. These data enable the determination of the typical linguistic signals of sarcasm in ancient Greek, as well as its rhetorical functions. Pawlak also addresses several ongoing discussions in Pauline scholarship. His volume advances our understanding of the abrupt opening of Galatians, diatribe and Paul's hypothetical interlocutor in Romans, the 'Corinthian slogans' of First Corinthians, and the 'fool's speech' found within Second Corinthians 10-13.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2022)
SN 9781009271929
SN 9781009271912
SN 9781009271905
K1 Bible : Epistles of Paul : Language, style
K1 Bible : Epistles of Paul : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Irony in the Bible
K1 Rhetoric in the Bible
K1 Rhetoric, Ancient
DO 10.1017/9781009271929