Corinthian Matters

Category: Religion, Judaism

  • Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians (Patterson)

    Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians (Patterson)

    This one seems appropriate for the eve of Passover and the Easter Triduum. Patterson, Jane Lancaster. Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians and Philippians. Early Christianity and Its Literature 16. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015. As SBL describes the work in its October 7 newsletter, “Patterson uses cognitive metaphor theory to trace the apostle Paul’s use of…

  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions

    Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions

      This new Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by Eric Orlin and a team of collaborators, claims to be the “first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative coverage of ancient religions in the Mediterranean world.” As the publisher page describes it: The volume’s scope extends from pre-historical antiquity in the third millennium B.C.E.…

  • Reading 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Digital Age

    Reading 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Digital Age

    A few years ago, a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life found that Americans on average were broadly illiterate about the core beliefs, writings, and teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Only about half of Americans, for example, know the Koran is the sacred text of Islam, Martin Luther was somehow associated with the Protestant Reformation, or…

  • 2015 Publications in Corinthian Studies: New Testament, Christianity, and Judaism

    This is the third in a series of five bibliographic reports related to Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2015. This post also marks the next installment in a Lenten series on resources for the study of Judaism, New Testament, and early Christianity in Corinth (see last week’s post on Corinthian-related blogs). Today’s report presents scholarship published or digitized in 2015 related…

  • The Long Lent

    The liturgical season of Lent begins today in the western Christian churches. If you don’t know what this is, Lent is a penitential season of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving that culminates in the celebration of Easter / Pascha. As far as liturgical seasons go, it’s a pretty old one that had emerged clearly by the council of Nicaea in AD…

  • People Under Power: Early Christian and Jewish Responses (Lebahn and Lehtipuu)

    This new book edited by Labahn and Lehtipuu looks broadly relevant to the study of Judaism and early Christianity at Corinth and the Corinthian correspondence with all its emphasis on power and weakness: Labahn, Michael, and Outi Lehtipuu, eds. People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Power Empire. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.…

  • Paul’s Political Strategy in 1 Corinthians 1-4 (Bitner)

    Bradley Bitner’s new book on Paul’s political theology, published last month with Cambridge University Press, looks to offer an interesting approach to understanding the opening chapters of the New Testament letter of 1 Corinthians. Here are the details from the publisher page: Bitner, Bradley J. Paul’s Political Strategy in 1 Corinthians 1-4. Cambridge University Press,…

  • 2013-2014 Publications in Corinthian Studies: New Testament, Christianity, and Judaism

    This is the fourth and final post in a series of bibliographic releases of new Corinthian scholarship published or digitized in 2013-2014. See this post last last Monday for further information about the sources of this bibliography and instructions for accessing the Zotero database. For earlier releases, see these posts: Prehistoric-Hellenistic Periods Roman Period Byzantine-Modern…