Paul's Paradigmatic "I": Personal Example as Literary Strategy: No. 177 (The Library of New Testament Studies)

Dodd, Brian

ISBN 10: 1850759146 / ISBN 13: 9781850759140

Published by Sheffield Academic Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paul's Paradigmatic "I": Personal Example as Literary Strategy: No. 177 (The Library of New Testament Studies)
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850759146
• ISBN 13: 9781850759140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This study claims that Paul uses his personal example as an explicit literary strategy in 1 Corinthians, Galatians and Philippians, and as an arguably implicit strategy in 1 Thessalonians and Philemon. He uses his own example to ground and illustrate his argumentation in a rhetorically sophisticated manner, often structuring his argument on such a basis. In places a crisp statement of his own case serves as a thesis statement of the argument that follows (e.g., Rom. 1.17; Gal. 1.10), while at other times it serves to summarize the argument and to provide a transition to the next phase (especially in 1 Corinthians and Gal. 2.15-21). All the while Paul's self-portrayals in his letters serve not autobiographical or egoistic purposes but pedagogical and argumentative aims.

About the Authors

Brian Dodd is Associate Pastor of Church of the New Covenant, and Director of Share Jesus!, an outreach ministry in Winter Springs, Florida, USA.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.