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Only the Third Heaven? - 2 Corinthians 12.1-10 and Heavenly Ascent (Hardcover, New)
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Only the Third Heaven? - 2 Corinthians 12.1-10 and Heavenly Ascent (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
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In Chapter 1 Paula Gooder discusses the problems of interpreting
this text and looks at the major debates of its past interpreters.
The most popular modern approach is to compare it with other texts
of ascent in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, yet even a brief
examination of these texts indicate that differences are present.
In the remainder of the book Gooder evaluates the extent and
significance of these differences. Part One consists of a detailed
consideration of a range of texts which superficially seem closest
to 2 Corinthians 12. Chapter 2 presents a history of scholarship on
heavenly ascent. Chapters 3 to 8 each examine a text of ascent from
a different period and background in the Judaeo-Christian
tradition. Chapter 9 draws out the points of similarity between
these texts. Part Two considers the text of 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
in the light of the findings of Part One. In the detailed
examination of the Pauline ascent in chapter 10, the extent of the
differences between this text and the texts examined in Part One
becomes clear. Chapter 11 proposes a new interpretation of the
account of ascent, arguing that it reports a failed ascent into
heaven. The chapter shows that this interpretation makes sense not
only of 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 itself but also of chapters 10-13
which surround it. The account is one more example of weakness from
the apostle in which he proves that weakness, not strength, is the
sign of a true apostle.
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