Corinthian Matters

Category: Religion, 1 Corinthians

  • Corinthian Scholarship (monthly): March-May

    Here is the first installment of Corinth-related scholarship, or scholarship discussing Corinth, which appeared in digital form in March to May. I will post the second installment for June-August on Friday. [Reposting this at 11:00 as I accidentally deleted the original] Diachronic Francis, J.e. “Experiments with an Old Ceramic Beehive.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31,…

  • Blogosphere: The Apostle Paul’s Corinth

    Google alerts picks up about 20-30 new sites / blogs / videos each day reflecting, commenting, alluding to, talking about, and preaching through the Corinthian letters. Here’s a small sample from the blogosphere this summer: Michael Bird’s reflections on Brian Rosner’s “The Missionary Character of 1 Corinthians” (and giving God the glory) “Outline of 2 Corinthians…

  • A Week in the Life of Corinth

    Jason Maston has a review at Dunelm Road on Ben Witherington’s recently published A Week in the Life of Corinth.  Haven’t yet read the book, but it is on my list.  Here’s a snippet of Maston’s short review: “I managed to get a copy of Ben Witherington‘s new book A Week in the Life of…

  • Easter Reflections

    It’s been a busy couple of weeks.  Traveling, work shops on digitization and information fluency, pressing publication schedules, and the grind of the semester have reduced the output from this site.  I have lots in the work that I hope to get out in the next couple of weeks including a Corinthian Scholarship (monthly).  In…

  • 2 Corinthians: A Select Bibliography

    Pepperdine University has provided free access to its past issues of Leaven: A Journal of Christian Ministry through its digital commons site.  There are about 20 articles and reviews on Corinth and the Corinthians.  Most useful is Carl Holladay’s select bibliography of 2 Corinthians, which actually includes a mix of commentaries, books, and articles on…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (February)

    Here’s the latest in Corinthian-related scholarship published, presented, or released online in February.  These 13 articles, books, and studies represent about 7% of ca 175 studies that triggered Google Scholar alerts last month.  There are many, many “false positives” that have little to do with ancient or medieval Corinth, or make only passing and insignificant…

  • “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…

  • Pauline and Early Christian Corinth: 2011 Publications

    Our series continues today with the 2011 publications related mainly to Early Christian Corinth and the interpretation of 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians.  About 100 publications on the subject were indexed online this year.  The list also includes 2009 and 2010 publications that were reviewed in 2011. As with the other 2010 and 2011 bibliographies, I…

  • Two Corinthian Christmases

    Happy Holidays from Corinthian Matters! Surprising amounts of Corinthiaka in my feeds over the last few days.  Here are two very different Corinthian Christmases, an impressionistic rumination of modern Corinth in terms of its ancient classical image, the second a religious reflection on 1 Corinthians 13. The first describes Henry Miller’s and Lawrence Durrell’s visit…

  • Three Reflections on 1 Corinthians

    Among the fastest growing bodies of digital data related to Corinthian studies are the texts, audio files, and videos of homilies, sermons, and commentary on the New Testament letters of 1 and 2 Corinthians.   The former, especially, provides numerous inlets for Christian preaching and teaching and connection to ‘real-world’ issues, for it discusses such varied…