Remembering Paul : ancient and modern contests over the image of the Apostle / Benjamin L. White
- Author:
- White, Benjamin L.
- Published:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introducing "Paul" -- The "Real" Paul -- "The Apostle" -- Practicing "Paul in the Second Century" -- Re-membering Paul's Image -- 2.Capturing Paul: F. C. Baur and the Rise of the Pauline Captivity Narrative -- F. C. Baur, the "Objectivity of History," and the Historiographical Move to Separate Paul from "Paul" -- The Rise of the Pauline Captivity Narrative -- Paul and the "Heretics": Marcion -- Paul and the "Heretics": The Valentinians -- Conclusion -- 3.Re-Imagining Paul: Recent Portrayals of "Paul in the Second Century" -- Narrative Iconoclasm: The Fall of the Pauline Captivity Narrative -- Historicizing the Historian: The Fall of Historiographical Positivism -- Competing Images of Paul -- Social-Scientific Approaches to the Image of Paul -- Status quaestionis -- Toward a New Historiography of Pauline Studies -- 4.Remembering Paul: Pauline Memory Traditions into the Second Century -- Tradition -- Pauline Traditions in the Second Century: Image, Text, and Tradition -- Memory, Tradition and Society -- Reputation and Image: Excursus on Abraham Lincoln in American Collective Memory -- "The (Polymorphic) Apostle" -- 5.Reclaiming Paul: The Image of Paul in 3 Corinthians -- 3 Corinthians: Introduction -- Paul and His Opponents -- Paul and the Apostles -- 3 Corinthians and the Pastoral Epistles -- 3 Corinthians versus 1 Corinthians 15 -- Summary and Conclusion: Constructing the "Paul" of 3 Corinthians -- 6.Expounding Paul: The Image of Paul in Irenaeus's Adversus haereses -- Paul in Irenaeus: A Brief Modern History -- Paul and the Apostles -- Irenaeus and the Pastoral Epistles -- Irenaeus and 1 Corinthians 15.50: "Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God" -- Conclusion: 3 Corinthians, Adversus haereses, and Proto-Orthodox Memory of Paul -- 7.Practicing Paul -- The Paul of History and the Apostle of Faith: Eight Considerations for Practicing Pauline Studies.
- Summary:
- In 'Remembering Paul', Benjamin L. White offers a theoretical and methodological examination of the legacy of the Apostle Paul in which he explores the way Paul was remembered in the century after his death, as well as the discursive practices that accompanied claims about the 'real' Paul in a period in which apostolic memory was highly contested.
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- ISBN:
- 9780199370290 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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