Author: Matthew R. Malcolm
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Merry Christmas!
Two hours until Christmas here… Happy Christmas!
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Does the Corinthian Correspondence Betray that Paul was Rhetorically Trained?
The two recent reviews of Ryan S. Schellenberg’s Rethinking Paul’s Rhetorical Education: Comparative Rhetoric and 2 Corinthians 10–13, mentioned in the previous post by David, are worth having a look at, for those interested in Paul’s Corinthian correspondence. They take part in a lively ongoing debate about the extent to which the apostle Paul employed,…
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“Jewish” and “Greco-Roman” Contexts of 1 Corinthians
In 2010 a new major commentary on 1 Corinthians appeared, by Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner: The commentary has just been reviewed by Korinna Zamfir in the Review of Biblical Literature. Zamfir raises some interesting questions about the ways in which assumptions concerning the contexts of the letter affect our interpretation. For Zamfir, Ciampa and Rosner…
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Two recent items of Corinthiaka from Australian scholars
I’ve recently noticed two pieces about 1-2 Corinthians from Australian scholars, which are worth noticing: Firstly, here, in a description of the “New College Lectures” at the University of New South Wales, David Starling suggests that 1 Corinthians may be thought of as setting a trajectory that validates the systematic codification of Christian theology. Secondly, in the September newsletter…
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