Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>]

gds AT dor.kaiser.org wrote:

>      Folks:
>
>      I am doing a summer intensive course on general hermeneutics.  Does
>      anybody know of any books/essays/articles that track a specific text
>      and its interpretation through it's major exegetical phases, i.e.,
>      through the centuries?  All I need is a few passages that are tracked
>      in this way to show some of the ways "reader response" has always been
>      with us, though the criticism has not.  I'm an OT person by trade, but
>      this is an OT/NT course, so it can be either way.  Years ago, I think
>      I remember I.H. Marshall or somebody doing something like this
>      somewhere with Luke 15.  But, I'm looking for any comprehensive
>      dealing with a text or two.

This is one of the features of Ulrich Luz's commentary on Matthew, but it is 
not, so
far as I know, something that figures largely in commentaries on Paul. Of 
course,
there are books--or sections within books--on certain Pauline topics, say,
"justification" and "righteousness" that do this. Jimmy Dunn's little 
"Justification"
is one such example. And  John Reumann's _Righteousness in the New Testament_ 
(with
responses by Fitzmyer and Jerome D. Quinn) does something similar in its 
introduction.
Then, of course, our own Neil Elliott does a bang up job in his _Liberating 
Paul_of
looking at how certain texts in Paul, as well as the apostle himself, has been
domesticated.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson
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