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The story of Saul and the woman at Endor in 1 Samuel 28 (LXX 1
Kingdoms 28) lay at the center of energetic disputes among early
Christian authors about the nature and fate of the soul, the source
of prophetic gifts, and biblical truth. In addition to providing
the original texts and fresh translations of works by Origen,
Eustathius of Antioch (not previously translated into English), and
six other authors, Greer and Mitchell offer an insightful
introduction to and detailed analysis of the rhetorical cast and
theological stakes involved in early church debates on this
notoriously difficult passage.
Arguing that all Pauline interpretation depends significantly on
the ways in which readers formulate their own images of the
apostle, Margaret M. Mitchell posits that John Chrysostom, the most
prolific interpreter of the Pauline epistles in the early church,
exemplifies this phenomenon. Mitchell brings together Chrysostom's
copious portraits of Paul--of his body, his soul, and his life
circumstances--and for the first time analyzes them as complex
rhetorical compositions built on well-known conventions of
Greco-Roman rhetoric. Two appendices offer a fresh translation of
Chrysostom's seven homilies "de laudibus sancti Pauli" and a
catalogue of color plates of artistic representations that
graphically represent the author/exegete dynamic this study
explores.
This work casts new light on the genre, function, and
composition of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Margaret
Mitchell thoroughly documents her argument that First Corinthians
was a single letter, not a combination of fragments, whose aim was
to persuade the Corinthian Christian community to become
unified.
The first of the nine volume Cambridge History of Christianity
series, Origins to Constantine provides a comprehensive overview of
the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the
emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean world in
the first three centuries. Over thirty essays written by scholarly
experts trace this dynamic history from the time of Jesus through
to the rise of Imperial Christianity in the fourth century. It
provides thoughtful and well-documented analyses of the diverse
forms of Christian community, identity and practice that arose
within decades of Jesus's death, and which through missionary
efforts were soon implanted throughout the Roman Empire. Origins to
Constantine examines the distinctive characteristics of Christian
groups in each geographical region up to the end of the third
century, while also exploring the development of the institutional
forms, intellectual practices and theological formulations that
would mark Christian history in subsequent centuries.
In a series of exchanges with the Corinthians in the mid-50s AD,
Paul continually sought to define the meaning of his message, his
body and his letters, at times insisting upon a literal
understanding, at others urging the reader to move beyond the words
to a deeper sense within. Proposing a fresh approach to early
Christian exegesis, Margaret M. Mitchell shows how in the
Corinthian letters Paul was fashioning the very principles that
later authors would use to interpret all scripture. Originally
delivered as The Speaker's Lectures in Biblical Studies at Oxford
University, this volume recreates the dynamism of the Pauline
letters in their immediate historical context and beyond it in
their later use by patristic exegetes. An engagingly written,
insightful demonstration of the hermeneutical impact of Paul's
Corinthian correspondence on early Christian exegetes, it also
illustrates a new way to think about the history of reception of
biblical texts.
In a series of exchanges with the Corinthians in the mid-50s AD,
Paul continually sought to define the meaning of his message, his
body and his letters, at times insisting upon a literal
understanding, at others urging the reader to move beyond the words
to a deeper sense within. Proposing a fresh approach to early
Christian exegesis, Margaret M. Mitchell shows how in the
Corinthian letters Paul was fashioning the very principles that
later authors would use to interpret all scripture. Originally
delivered as The Speaker's Lectures in Biblical Studies at Oxford
University, this volume recreates the dynamism of the Pauline
letters in their immediate historical context and beyond it in
their later use by patristic exegetes. An engagingly written,
insightful demonstration of the hermeneutical impact of Paul's
Corinthian correspondence on early Christian exegetes, it also
illustrates a new way to think about the history of reception of
biblical texts.
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