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The Heavenly Trumpet - John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation (Hardcover)
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The Heavenly Trumpet - John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation (Hardcover)
Series: Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie, 40
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Margaret M. Mitchell argues that all Pauline interpretation depends
to a large degree upon the ways in which readers formulate their
own mental (and sometimes graphic) images of the author, Paul. John
Chrysostom, the most prolific interpreter of the Pauline epistles
in the early church (c. 349-407 C.E.), richly exemplifies this
phenomenon in his writings and speeches, where he composes word
portraits of his beloved Paul, so as to bring his own readers face
to face with the saintly figure he commends for their imitation.
The author brings together the copious portraits of Paul - of his
body, his soul, and his life circumstances - found throughout
Chrysostom's immense corpus of writings, and for the first time
analyzes them as complex rhetorical compositions built upon
well-known conventions and techniques of Greco-Roman rhetoric
(epithet, encomium, and ekphrasis). Chrysostom's literary
portraiture, by idealizing Paul as 'the archetypal image' of
Christian virtue, served as a rhetorical vehicle for social
construction and replication of the Pauline model in the
now-Christian society of late antiquity. Pauline interpretation as
Chrysostom practiced it confounds both the traditional map of
patristic exegesis as defined by the dichotomy between Antiochene
literalism and Alexandrine allegory, and contemporary hermeneutical
claims about 'the death of the author' in the interpretive
enterprise. While Chrysostom's Pauline portraiture may reach
exalted heights of artistry, it is not unique, as comparisons with
Chrysostom's Latin contemporary Augustine and recent Pauline
scholarship reveal. Two appendices offer a fresh translation of
Chrysostom's seven homilies de laudibus sancti Pauli, and a
catalogue and color plates of artistic representations of
Chrysostom and Paul that graphically represent the author/exegete
dynamic this study explores.
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