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Paul and the Emergence of Christian Textuality - Early Christian Literary Culture in Context. Collected Essays, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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Paul and the Emergence of Christian Textuality - Early Christian Literary Culture in Context. Collected Essays, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 393
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The essays by Margaret M. Mitchell collected in this volume were
published over a roughly twenty-five year span of time, and range
in scope from the treatment of a two-word phrase ( , "now
concerning," in 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians) to the role of
"the written record" in the formation, diffusion, and ultimate
success of the Gentile Christ-believing mission in the first three
centuries. At the heart of these studies are two main claims: an
insistence that it was by no means predictable that textuality
would be a crucial medium of the Christ-believing apocalyptic
missionary movements, and the contention that in a significant way
it was the influence of the self-styled "apostolic envoy," Paul,
that made it so. These arguments involve not only a retracing of
the history and development of Paulinism, in some sense, but also
an analysis, both hermeneutical and history-of-religions, of the
role of texts in the life of the historical Paul, in the extant
remnants of the historical-epistolary Paul (i.e., of the
homologoumena), and in that of Paulinist readers, writers,
collectors, redactors, narrators, and interpreters from his time
forward. This extends from the flexible poetics of his
accordion-like "gospel narrative" that could be expanded and
contracted to encompass and address with sophistication all kinds
of issues in occasion-specific written texts, to the theological
grounding of that gospel proclamation ("according to the
scriptures," 1 Cor 15:3-4), to the religious logic of "envoyage"
and "epiphany" that animated his self-understanding of mediated
presence of Jesus Christ crucified, to the powerful poetics of
epistolary literature that enabled the absent Paul to speak from a
distance and so even the dead Paul to continue to speak to
generation after generation in a trans-local and trans-temporal
religious community formed in relation to these texts, their
claims, and their ritual embodiments. The story of the development
of an early Christian literary culture is not ancillary to a proper
study of the "rise of Christianity" but is a key to it, the
isolation of a major strand of its DNA and its processes for
replication across time and space.
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