Corinthian Matters

Category: Religion, 2 Corinthians

  • The Corinthia Zotero Library: New Organization

    Yesterday I discovered batch tagging in Zotero. Instead of manually changing tags one at a time (an incredibly time-consuming process), one can batch tag by dragging a selection of multiple items onto any tag in the tag selector box in the Standalone version of Zotero. This feature effectively allowed me to tackle the tags in…

  • Pope Francis on Poverty and the Logic of Divine Love

    When Palladius, the author of the Lausiac History, wanted to expose a pseudo-monk named Valens in the early fifth century AD, he called him “a Corinthian—for St. Paul charged the Corinthians with arrogance.” St. Ambrose, the powerful bishop of Milan and one of the so-called “doctors” of the western church, commented on 1 Corinthians 5:1…

  • Coming Soon: The Apocalypse

    A new Oxford Handbook due April 14, with obvious relevance for understanding the broader ancient context for particular passages in 1 and 2 Corinthians such as Paul’s vision and the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:1-4), the parousia and the resurrection of the dead (1 Corinthians 15), the passing world and last times (1 Cor. 7:29-31):…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (December-February). Part 1

    With the end of last semester, holidays, and deadlines, I fell a bit behind on the Corinthian Scholarship Monthly posts. Yesterday I started to dig out, sift through emails, and find the gems in the bunch. This will be the first of two posts on new scholarship that went live in December to February. I’ll…

  • “Now is the day of salvation”

    It’s one of those happy years when eastern and western Christian calendars coincide and Lenten seasons begin and conclude in the same weeks. Last year these movable seasons were five weeks off so that Orthodox Christians were in the heart of their fasts while Catholics and Protestants were feasting and singing the Hallelujahs. (And for…

  • RBL Reviews: Four New Books on Paul and Pauline Studies

    Freshly printed by the Review of the Biblical Literature, four new books related to Paul, Pauline studies, writings, theology, themes, mission, and interpretation—plenty of 1 and 2 Corinthians here. Celebrating Paul: Festschrift in Honor of Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, O.P., and Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.Spitaler, Peter, editorWashington: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2011 pp. xxviii + 439.…

  • Two Reviews of Recent Books on 1 and 2 Corinthians

    The Review of Biblical Literature has recently posted two reviews of books published in 2013 related to 1 and 2 Corinthians. The first review by Matthew Malcolm of Cryptotheology, reviews Yung Suk Kim (ed.), 1 and 2 Corinthians: Texts @ Contexts, Minneapolis 2013: Fortress Press. The Fortress Press page describes the book this way: “The…

  • Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (November 2013)

    Your latest round of new Corinthian scholarship published or posted online in the last month – just in time for the holiday season. Feel free to reply to this post if you have something to add. If you are interested and qualified to review any of the following, contact me at corinthianmatters@gmail.com. For comprehensive bibliography…

  • SBL Baltimore 2013

    I will not be able to attend the annual meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Society of Biblical Literature that begin this week in Baltimore, but I will offer, as in years past, an index of papers and sessions related in some way to Corinth. I did not see any obvious…

  • Inequality in Corinth

    It didn’t take long for the Googlebots to find Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality, fresh off the press  of Brill publishing company. Google Books has made available the Introductory matter, Table of Contents, and Chapter 1 (Inequality in Corinth) by editors Steven Friesen, Sarah James, and Daniel Schowalter. In their introductory chapter, the editors…