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  • From: "Rick Hubbard" <rhubbard AT midmaine.com>
  • To: "Corpus-Paul" <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Letters of recommendation and the tricky genitive
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:43:25 -0400

Chris wrote:

1) I wonder if anyone could suggest anything to read about the 1st
century usage of letters of recommendation? I'm getting into a fix
over the genitive (letter of Christ) in 2 Cor 3:3 as many recent
German works understand this as an objective genitive (i.e. that
Christ is content of the letter - which somewhat throws a spanner in
the works in relation to my argument in this section). In light of
the usual reasoning for a subjective genitive reading (i.e. that
Christ is author of the letter) I feel I ought to pursue a brief
examination on the practice and theory of 'recommendation letter'
writing. Any ideas?

Try this:

Chan Hie Kim: "The Familar Letter of Reccomendation" SBL Dissertation Series
#? Missoula MT: Scholars Press ca 1974.

Rick Hubbard





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