Corpus-Paul

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Mark Given writes:
> By the way, I got to know Troy a bit in Heidelberg last Summer at the
> Rhetoric, Ethics, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse Conference.
> His paper called "Veiled Exhortation to Wear the Veil" contains a
> lexical argument--a rather strong one by the way--that Paul is saying a
> woman's hair is given to her in place of a testicle.  It's a hoot!  It's
> available online:
>
> http://www.ars-rhetorica.net/Queen/VolumeSpecialIssue2/Articles/Contribu
> tors.html



       Some on this list by now have read this article and others from the web site.  A few leading questions:
       The first part of the paper was on "ethos", the topic of the conference.  I found his study helpful.  I also read the pseudepigrapha paper and found it helpful as well.  On the problem of pseudepigraphic writings (which seems to include some Pauline letters) we seem to almost be going somewhere, but I find most studies fall short of firm results.  Does anyone recommend any other papers in the conference on ethos?
       The second part of the paper is the hoot.  Although I find Martin's arguments intriguing and somewhat convincing, I am less than convinced on how he uses his sources.  For instance, I researched his reading of a line from Euripides' Heracles and could not find any translation or commentary which read the line the way he did.  Is this a problem which anyone noticed on any other references?
Jim Miller