Corpus-Paul

[Jeff Peterson <peterson AT mail.ics.edu>]

At 8:59 PM -0700 5/6/99, Jim Hester wrote:
>Boy do I like this "summer reading" idea, although if Jeff Peterson will
>permit it, I would like to suggest some things that might not necessarily
>end up on a seminarian's or pastor's shelf.

Permission granted, if I may mention one further title -- Margaret
Mitchell's _Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation_ (originally a Chicago
dissertation under Betz), another rhetorical analysis of 1 Corinthians that
avoids the mechanical appropriation of rhetoric and compares the letter to
classical speeches appealing for harmony in the _polis_, among other things
convincingly construing the letter as a literary unity.

As for the "begin reading here" title, my nomination is Fitzmyer's _Paul
and His Theology_, which is interesting to read in comparison with the
earlier edition titled _Pauline Theology_. (The two versions are also
incorporated within the 1st and 2d editions respectively of the _Jerome
Biblical Commentary_.)

Thanks to all who submitted a reading list; what are the rest of you
waiting for? :-)

Jeff

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Jeffrey Peterson
Institute for Christian Studies
Austin, Texas, USA
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