Redescribing Paul And The Corinthians (early Christianity And Its Literature)
by Ron Cameron /
2011 / English / PDF
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This second volume of studies by members of the SBL Seminar on
Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins reassesses
the agenda of modern scholarship on Paul and the Corinthians. The
contributors challenge the theory of religion assumed in most New
Testament scholarship and adopt a different set of theoretical and
historical terms for redescribing the beginnings of the Christian
religion. They propose explanations of the relationship between
Paul and the recipients of 1 Corinthians; the place of Paul s
Christ-myth for his gospel; the reasons for a disinterest in and
rejection of Paul s gospel and/or for the reception and attraction
of it; and the disjunction between Paul s collective representation
of the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians and the Corinthians own
engagement with Paul in mythmaking and social formation, including
mutual (mis)translation and (mis)appropriation of the other s
discourse and practices. The contributors are Ron Cameron and
Merrill P. Miller, Jonathan Z. Smith, Burton L. Mack, William E.
Arnal, Stanley K. Stowers, Richard S. Ascough, and John S.
Kloppenborg.
This second volume of studies by members of the SBL Seminar on
Ancient Myths and Modern Theories of Christian Origins reassesses
the agenda of modern scholarship on Paul and the Corinthians. The
contributors challenge the theory of religion assumed in most New
Testament scholarship and adopt a different set of theoretical and
historical terms for redescribing the beginnings of the Christian
religion. They propose explanations of the relationship between
Paul and the recipients of 1 Corinthians; the place of Paul s
Christ-myth for his gospel; the reasons for a disinterest in and
rejection of Paul s gospel and/or for the reception and attraction
of it; and the disjunction between Paul s collective representation
of the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians and the Corinthians own
engagement with Paul in mythmaking and social formation, including
mutual (mis)translation and (mis)appropriation of the other s
discourse and practices. The contributors are Ron Cameron and
Merrill P. Miller, Jonathan Z. Smith, Burton L. Mack, William E.
Arnal, Stanley K. Stowers, Richard S. Ascough, and John S.
Kloppenborg.