Corinthian Matters

Category: Religion, 2 Corinthians

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Corinth at the Tate

    Museums are increasingly posting collections of images and artwork online which, on occasion, deal with Corinthian topics.  In the midst of the end-of-semester madness, I learned of Tate’s extensive online collection of art through alerts sparked by the posting of Corinthian images on a new beta site (to replace its current digital collection). Some interesting…

  • Corinthian Scholarship (November)

    Hard to believe that December is already here – quite a lot of new scholarship delivered electronically in November.  Bronze Age Erika Weiberg, “The invisible dead : The case of the Argolid and Corinthia during the Early Bronze Age,” in Helen Cavanagh, William Cavanagh and James Roy (eds.), Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese: Proceedings…

  • Going to San Francisco for the Society of Biblical Literature? An Invitation to Contribute

    The annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature runs this week from Saturday to Tuesday and will offer more than 50 papers related in some way to the study of Corinth.  In August, I posted a comprehensive list of these Corinthiaka papers that deal with, variously, the history and archaeology of the city, the…

  • The Unqualified Apostle

    Gary Shogren at JustinofNablus wins the prize for most creative (recent) Apostle-Paul-in-Corinth blog post.  In “Dear Paul,” he describes how the apostle failed to satisfy what Corinthian Christians thought most important and would fail to qualify today for the typical ministry job.  This post draws from Paul’s own rhetoric in 1 and 2 Corinthians about…