Paul and the Corinthians : Leadership, Ordeals, and the Politics of Displacement Paperback / softback
by Dr. Jonathan B. Ensor
Part of the The Library of New Testament Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
Jonathan B. Ensor revisits the scholarly consensus concerning Paul’s intermediate visit to the Corinthians between his first and second epistles.
Ensor re-evaluates the textual evidence, interpreting the event through a socio-historical lens that focuses upon ancient trial by ordeal and exit in the context of communal conflict, shedding significant light upon the social behaviours involved in this event and its interpretation. Beginning with a review of relational and social-spacial dynamics and sources of conflict, Ensor then explores the politics of displacement in Graeco-Roman antiquity to analyse the relational contours of Paul’s intermediate visit to Corinth.
From these insights, Ensor interprets Paul’s autobiographical narrations of apostolic ordeal and Paul’s announcement of imminent return to Corinth in 2 Corinthians.
Ensor concludes that Paul, through the ordeal accounts, aimed both to reverse the judgments against him emerging from the intermediate visit, and to undermine the evaluative structure of his detractors who viewed him as impotent, illegitimate, and displaced.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/10/2023
- ISBN:9780567700834
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/10/2023
- ISBN:9780567700834
