Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

corpus-paul - Re: sick and broke

corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Corpus-Paul

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Christopher Hutson <crhutson AT salisbury.net>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: sick and broke
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:57:21 EDT



>From: Rick Strelan <rick.strelan AT mailbox.uq.edu.au>

>Is it also possible that Paul was sick and broke in Ephesus [or
wherever
>the Corinthian correspondence has its provenance]? Sick not with the
>congenital or permanent diasability that is proposed [blindness,
epilepsy
>etc] but just sick as a dog ['I die every day' 1 Cor 15:31; cf also 2
Cor
>1:8]?
>Finally, how come Paul complains of hunger, thirst,illness,
homelessness
>etc [1 Cor 4:11;these are not rhetorical complaints] - where were his
>supporters?
>

Rick,

I like Frank's suggestion that you take into consideration Paul's
relationship with the Corinthians in terms of the implications and
expectations and assumptions about patronage in Greco-Roman antiquity.

But you should also take a look at John T. Fitzgerald, _Cracks in an
Earthen Vessel: An Examination of the Catalogues of Hardships in the
Corinthian Correspondence_ SBLDS 99 (Scholars Press, 1988).
Fitzgerald explores the _peristasis_ catalogue as a rhetorical topos
and examines in detail how Paul uses it in Cor.

Regards,

XPIC

------------------------------------
Christopher R. Hutson
Hood Theological Seminary
Salisbury, NC 28144
crhutson AT salisbury.net
------------------------------------




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page