"When you were gentiles": specters of ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian correspondence
Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul's letters. Based on surviving written materials and archaeological research, this book offers a textured portrait of the ancient Corinthians with whom Paul conversed, arg...
| Summary: | Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul's letters. Based on surviving written materials and archaeological research, this book offers a textured portrait of the ancient Corinthians with whom Paul conversed, argued, debated, and partnered, focusing on issues of ethnicity, civic identity, politics, and empire pt. 1 Corinth and Corinthians between Greece and Rome -- Becoming all things: Paul and the rhetoric of ethic malleability -- Marketplaces, merchant ships, and festivals: negotiating identities in Corinth -- Speech, flattery, and the negotiation of identity for "some" Corinthians -- pt. 2 Corinth and Corinithians between past and present -- Walking in the wilderness: Israelite ancestors in the Corinthian correspondence -- "In the city of Peirene": claiming, erasing, and challenging the past in Corinth -- Usable pasts in the Corinthian wilderness: spirits, specters, and negotiations of identity at the crossroads -- Conclusing: haunted futures. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index |
| ISBN: | 0300209592 |