The Divine Comedy at Corinth: Paul, Menander and the Rhetoric of Resurrection
This article asks how the New Comedy of Menander might have influenced Paul's theological rhetoric in 1 Cor 5-15. An intertextual reading of Paul's letter against the backdrop of Menander's Samia reveals a number of shared topics, ethical concerns and dramatic characteristics. Paul�...
| Published in: | New Testament studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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New Testament studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Corinthians 1. 5-15
/ Menander 342 BC-291 BC
/ Intertextuality
/ Rhetoric
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Menander
B 1 Corinthians B Rhetoric B Paul B Tragedy B New Comedy |
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| Summary: | This article asks how the New Comedy of Menander might have influenced Paul's theological rhetoric in 1 Cor 5-15. An intertextual reading of Paul's letter against the backdrop of Menander's Samia reveals a number of shared topics, ethical concerns and dramatic characteristics. Paul's citation of Menander's Thais in 1 Cor 15.33 is part of this larger strategy to frame the struggles in Corinth within the ambit of Greek household situation comedy'. Like Menander, Paul hybridises tragic and comic motifs throughout his epistle, inflecting the comedy of the Christ narrative with tragic examples of human misapprehension in this plea for ecclesial reconciliation. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688518000140 |