Redescribing Paul and the Corinthians (Early Christianity and Its Literature) - Softcover

Ron Cameron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158983528X ISBN 13: 9781589835283

Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011

Synopsis

This second volume of studies by members of the SBL Seminar on Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins reassesses the agenda of modern scholarship on Paul and the Corinthians. The contributors challenge the theory of religion assumed in most New Testament scholarship and adopt a different set of theoretical and historical terms for redescribing the beginnings of the Christian religion. They propose explanations of the relationship between Paul and the recipients of 1 Corinthians; the place of Paul s Christ-myth for his gospel; the reasons for a disinterest in and rejection of Paul s gospel and/or for the reception and attraction of it; and the disjunction between Paul s collective representation of the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians and the Corinthians own engagement with Paul in mythmaking and social formation, including mutual (mis)translation and (mis)appropriation of the other s discourse and practices. The contributors are Ron Cameron and Merrill P. Miller, Jonathan Z. Smith, Burton L. Mack, William E. Arnal, Stanley K. Stowers, Richard S. Ascough, and John S. Kloppenborg.

About this title

About the Author:

Ron Cameron is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University. Merrill P. Miller is Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. They are co-chairs of the SBL Seminar on Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins and co-editors of Redescribing Christian Origins (Society of Biblical Literature)

About this edition

• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 158983528X
• ISBN 13: 9781589835283
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Ron Cameron, Merrill P. Miller