UID:
almahu_9949703505002882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages)
ISBN:
9789004266964
Series Statement:
Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 66
Content:
This study demonstrates that Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:5 - 4:5 is led by the rhetorical situation to emphasize God's final judgment as the affirmation of the individual Christian's work. Paul is not simply opposing his future eschatology to a Corinthian \'realized\' eschatology. Rather, he is teaching the Corinthians to adapt their inherited belief in a corporate judgment to new concerns within the community. The exegetical study is set in the context of past scholarship on the questions of Paul's eschatology, his beliefs concerning judgment, and the role of eschatology in 1 Corinthians. Chapters on the functions of divine judgment in Jewish and Greco-Roman writings help to define the way early Christians thought of God's judgment and to suggest how Corinthian sensibilities influenced Paul's application of judgment language. This book contributes to ongoing debates about the apocalyptic theology of Paul and the eschatological views of the Corinthians. It will also be useful to scholars who are interested in the role played by ideas of divine judgment in the world of the New Testament.
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1989.
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Preliminary Material -- Approaches to the Study of Apocalyptic Judgment Language in Paul and in 1 Corinthians -- The Functions of Divine Judgment in Jewish Texts -- The Functions of Postmortem Judgment in Greek and Roman Traditions -- Judgment and Community Conflict in 1 Corinthians 3:5-4:5 -- Judgment and Eschatology in 1 Corinthians 3:5-4:5: A Parenetic Adaptation of an Apocal Yptic Tradition -- A Sketch of Paul's Eschatological Arguments in 1 Corinthians 5-16 -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of References.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Judgment and Community Conflict: Paul's Use of Apocalyptic Judgment Language in 1 Corinthians 3:5-4:5 Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1992, ISBN 9789004095106
Language:
English
