Corpus-Paul

["David Hindley" <dhindley AT compuserve.com>]

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From: David Hindley [mailto:dhindley AT compuserve.com] On Behalf Of 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 6:32 AM
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Subject: RE: [Corpus-Paul] relation between eschatology & word/flesh?

Rachel,

Hayden White is quoted as endorsing Daniel Boyarin's book on Paul _A Radical 
Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity_ ...

"Boyarin weighs in with his usual eclat . . . reading the Epistles as if they 
were contributions to contemporary debates over the
issues of feminism, multiculturalism, Zionism, identity politics, and 
deconstruction, and reading these as if they were germane to
an understanding of the Epistles. The book is a tour de force of PoMo 
criticism, and required reading for anyone interested in the
history of religion, Judaism, Christianity, Western culture, 'Orientalism,' 
identity politics, feminism--and the list could go on."

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6414.html

That is, apparently, a publisher's blurb (and so may be out of context). 
While I have not read Boyarin's book, it may at least touch
on your subject of interest. 

White himself, I do not remember where, also briefly treats Paul for examples 
of the mimesis effect.

I cannot think of any literary critic that deals exactly with what you are 
after, but I am no expert.

Respectfully,

Dave Hindley
Cleveland, Ohio USA


 

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[mailto:corpus-paul-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rachel Price
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 6:43 AM
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Subject: [Corpus-Paul] relation between eschatology & word/flesh?

 
Dear Corpus Paulinum:

A question from a totally religiously-uninformed literature grad student: I 
work on 19th and 20th century literatures from the
trans- Atlantic (Spanish Portuguese and English). I would like bibliographic 
suggestions for any works, if they exist, that address
the connections between Pauline eschatology and Pauline theories of the 
relation between word and flesh. I ask because I focus on
Europe's relation to and colonization of the Americas, which, North and 
South, was very much influenced by Pauline eschatology; at
the same time, the commodity culture and [my focus] 'concrete poetry' 
developed in the region depended on to a secular notion of the
"word made flesh".

Are you aware of any work that treats the relationship-- if any-- between 
Paul's notion of temporality and his notion of
materiality/ the relation between language and thing?

Many thanks in advance for any leads.

Best,

Rachel Price
Duke University
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