Corinthian Matters

Category: Religion, 1 Corinthians

  • SBL – Day 3-4

    More good 1 and 2 corinthians papers today at the SBL International: Kar-Yong Lim, Seminari Theoloji Malaysia, “Paul’s Use of Temple Imagery in the Corinthian Correspondence and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Contextual Reading from the Perspectives of A Chinese Malaysian” Jeremy Punt, Universiteit van Stellenbosch – University of Stellenbosch, “Foolish Rhetoric in 1…

  • SBL – Day 1-2

    Corinthianmatters is on the road again, this time in London for the Society of Biblical Literature 2011 international meeting. The conference started yesterday with a session called the “Corinthian Correspondence”: Wayne Coppins, University of Georgia, “Paul’s Concern with the Nature and Location of Eating Meat Sacrificed to Idols in 1 Cor 8-10: A Response to…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (May-June 2011)

    It’s been a couple of months since the last Corinthian Scholarship update, so we have a full list here.  The following list compiles the works I happened to see and the (imperfect) results of various google alerts.  If you have material to add to these monthly compilations, send to corinthianmatters@gmail.com.  As usual, 1 and 2…

  • The Feasts of Peter and Paul, Apostles, June 29

    Photo by Kate Pettegrew (June 29, 2007) Photo by Kate Pettegrew (June 29, 2007)   The troparion and kontakia for June 29 from the website of the Orthodox Church of America: ************** First-enthroned of the apostles,teachers of the universe:Entreat the Master of allto grant peace to the world,and to our souls great mercy! ************** O…

  • Abstracts from Paul, People, and Politics Conference

    As a follow up to my last post on the “Corinth – Paul, People, and Politics” at Macquarie University, I have just received from Cavan Concannon a PDF document of the paper abstracts.  Check out the Corinth Conference Abstracts.  The papers covered a wide range of issues relating in some way to Pauline or early Christian…

  • Macquarie University Conference

    A first report is now available on the Society for the Study of Early Christianity conference at Macquarie University last weekend, with Corinth as its theme this year. The review focuses mainly on the value of Laurence Welborn’s “The Content and Setting of the Gospel Tradition,” but there are also some positive comments on Amelia…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (April 2011)

    The latest in Corinthian Scholarship for April 2011.  As always, this list is based on various Google alerts that may be thorough but are certainly not exhaustive.  If you have material to add, send it my way. Geology: The most recent article on the Gulf of Corinth rift: “The Structures, Stratigraphy and Evolution of the…

  • Corinthiaka (April 2011)

    Probably about time to release the few Corinthiaka news and links that have accumulated through Google updates this month.  I’ll follow with an April publication / scholarship overview later in the week: Matt Malcolm’s  Greek language exercises set in the Corinthian marketplace calls to mind simulation exercises that my colleague, Reta Finger, used to do with…

  • “For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed”

    We can expect a big weekend for sermons on 1 Corinthians.  Eastern and western liturgical calendars realign this year for the celebration of Easter, and Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians offers some of the most direct and explicit discussions in the New Testament on the significance of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.   1 Corinthians 5.6-8,…

  • SBL International – London, July 4-7

    The Society of Biblical Literature has posted its schedule of papers for the international conference in London, July 4-7, 2011.  There are three sessions that focus entirely on Corinth and many scattered papers that touch on Corinthian matters.  Clicking on the links below will pull up the abstracts from the SBL website.   First, the…