Second Corinthians and Paul's Gospel of Human Mortality: How Paul's Experience of Death Authorizes His Apostolic Authority in Corinth
Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction, Issues, Method -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Literary & Historical Reconstruction of Second Corinthians -- 1.3 Opponents -- 1.4 Method -- 1.5 Implications -- Chapter 2: Death in Ancient Corinth: Attitudes that Contributed to the Fall...
| Summary: | Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction, Issues, Method -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Literary & Historical Reconstruction of Second Corinthians -- 1.3 Opponents -- 1.4 Method -- 1.5 Implications -- Chapter 2: Death in Ancient Corinth: Attitudes that Contributed to the Fall of an Afflicted Apostle -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The History and Culture of the Corinthia -- 2.3 Attitudes Toward Death in Graeco-Roman Corinth -- 2.4 Attitudes Toward Death in Graeco-Roman Literature -- 2.4.1 Plato: Phaedo -- Plato's Body-Soul Dualism -- Plato's Understanding of Physical Death -- Plato's Understanding of the Soul's Immortality -- Plato in Corinth -- 2.4.2 Cicero: "Somnium Scipionis" in De Re Publica -- Cicero's Personalisation of the Soul -- Cicero in Corinth -- 2.4.3 Virgil: Book Six of the Aeneid -- Virgil's Depiction of Death -- Virgil's Conceptualisation of Death -- Echoes of Roman Funeral Practice -- Virgil in Corinth -- 2.5 Attitudes Toward Death in Roman Funeral Practice -- 2.5.1 Pagan-Christian Syncretism -- 2.5.2 Graeco-Roman Transition from Cremation to Inhumation -- 2.5.3 The Roman Funeral and the Cult of the Dead -- Rites for the Dying and Immediately Dead -- Rites Following Death, Including Interment or Cremation -- Rites Following Interment or Cremation -- Continuity of Person, Corpse, and Soul in Roman Funeral Practice -- Pre-burial Caution -- Burial Procession -- Burial Site Location -- Burial Necessity -- Corpse Manipulation -- Corpse Handling -- Post-burial Purification Rites -- The Cult of the Manes -- 2.6 Summary -- Chapter 3: Paul's Experience of Death: 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 -- 3.1 Recent History of Interpretation -- 3.2 The Introductory Thanksgivings of 1 and 2 Corinthians -- 3.3 Exegesis of 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 -- 3.3.1 A Jewish Eulogy (Berakah) -- 3.3.2 Beginning with Two Divine Descriptors. 3.3.3 An "Interpolation" on Pastoral Theology: 1.4-7 -- Paul's Use of Pronouns in 1.4-7 -- The Strengthening Character of God in 1.4-7 -- The Centrality of Christ in 1.4-7 -- The Present Character of God's Strengthening in 1.4-7 -- Coupling Divine Strengthening and Human Mortality in 1.4-7 -- Summary -- 3.3.4 An Account of Mortal Affliction in Asia: 1.8-11 -- Paul's Disclosure of His Asian Affliction in 1.8 -- The Extravagance of Paul's Disclosure in 1.8 -- Recapitulation or Counterpoint in 1.9? -- The Interdependence of the Church in Affliction in 1.11 -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Paul's Theology of Death: 2 Corinthians 4.7-12 -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Paul's Turn Toward the Corporeal at 4.7 -- 4.3 Exegesis of 2 Corinthians 4.7-12 -- 4.3.1 The Antecedent to "Treasure" (θησαυρός) -- 4.3.2 The Meaning of "Pottery Jars" (ὀστρακίνοις σκεύεσιν) -- 4.3.3 The Meaning of "in order that ... being" (ἵνα ... ᾖ) -- 4.3.4 The Phenomenon of "Overabundance" (ὑπερβολή) -- 4.3.5 Paul's Poetic Participial Pairing in 4.8-9 -- 4.3.6 The Semantic Meaning of "Deadness" (νέκρωσις) in 4.10 -- Paul's Use of νεκρ-Cognates -- Paul's Only Other Use of νέκρωσις in Romans 4.19 -- Νέκρωσις in the Ancient Greek Corpus -- Νέκρωσις in Severus -- Νέκρωσις in Soranus of Ephesus -- Νέκρωσις in Aretaeus of Cappadocia -- Νέκρωσις in Galen of Pergamum -- Νέκρωσις in Philumenus of Alexandria -- Νέκρωσις in Shepherd of Hermas -- Νέκρωσις in Irenaeus of Lyons -- Summary -- The Semantic Meaning of νέκρωσις for Paul -- 4.3.7 Paul's Recapitulation of 4.10 in 4.11 -- 4.3.8 The Meaning of "being handed over" (παραδίδωμι) in 4.11a -- 4.3.9 The Fruitfulness of Paul's Mortality in 4.12 -- 4.3.10 The Conceptual Parallelism Between 4.7 and 4.10-11 -- 4.3.11 The Theological Meaning of "the deadness of Jesus" -- Hans Windisch -- Adolf Schlatter -- Ernst Käsemann -- Erhardt Güttgemanns -- Walter Schmithals Jean-François Collange -- Jan Lambrecht -- Summary Interpretation -- 4.4 Summary -- Chapter 5: Experience and Theology in Conversation: 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 and 4.7-12 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Correspondence of Vocabulary -- 5.2.1 Significant Vocabulary Correspondence -- Linking "overabundance" and "power" (ὑπερβολή and δύναμις) -- Paul's Only Two Uses of "despair" (ἐξαπορέομαι) in the NT -- Paul's Only Two Uses of "work" (ἐνεργέω) in 2 Corinthians -- The Degree of Agreement Between 1.11 and 4.15 -- 5.2.2 Suggestive Vocabulary Correspondence -- Concentration of θλι-Cognates and Ironic Usage of βαρ-Cognates -- Paul's Peculiar Language of "Death" (θάνατος) -- Paul's Use of ἐγείρω to Characterise God -- 5.2.3 Summary -- 5.3 The Correspondence of Textual Character -- 5.3.1 Degree of Parallelism -- 5.3.2 Context of Crisis and Confidence -- 5.3.3 Central Role for Jesus Christ -- 5.3.4 Mortality as a Burden -- 5.3.5 The Organicity of Death and Life -- 5.3.6 God Has Altered the Nature of Death -- 5.3.7 Introspective, Self-referential Tone -- 5.3.8 Summary -- 5.4 The Correspondence of Theology -- 5.4.1 The Function of Human Mortality: Dislocation and Dependence -- Dislocation and Dependence in 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 -- Dislocation and Dependence in 2 Corinthians 4.7-12 -- 5.4.2 The Consequence of Human Mortality: Freedom and Life -- Freedom from Despair -- Communication of Life -- 5.5 Summary -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- 6.1 Overview -- 6.2 2 Corinthians Among the Paulines -- 6.3 Indebtedness -- 6.4 Contributions -- 6.5 Future Work -- 6.6 Implications -- Appendix 1: Diagramming Paul's Experience of Death in 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 -- Appendix 2: Diagramming Paul's Theology of Death in 2 Corinthians 4.7-12 -- Appendix 3: Paul's Vocabulary of Death -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- A. Hebrew Bible and Septuagint -- B. New Testament C. Other Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects |
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| ISBN: | 316153378X |