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Paul and the Corinthians
Leadership, Ordeals, and the Politics of Displacement
Paul and the Corinthians
Leadership, Ordeals, and the Politics of Displacement
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviation
Introduction
Part I: Paul and Political Displacement in Corinth
Chapter 1: Political Displacement in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Chapter 2: The Intermediate Ordeal: Paul's Impotence and Illegitimacy
Chapter 3: Testing the Hypothesis: Embezzlement, Levity, and Deviant Character
Part II: Discourses of Displacement in 2 Corinthians
Chapter 4: St. Paul's Art of the Ordeal: Apostolic Impotence and Divine Aid in Other Places
Chapter 5: St. Paul's Return to Corinth (2 Corinthians 13:1–10)
Summary of Findings
Appendix I: Campaigning for Reconciliation and Return
Appendix II: The ho adikesas Conflict
Bibliography of Modern Sources
Product details
| Published | Oct 19 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9780567700834 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | The Library of New Testament Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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