The letters of Paul in their Roman literary context: reassessing apostolic authorship
Since the late-nineteenth century, scholars have all but concluded that the Apostle Paul authored six authentic community letters (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonian) and one individual letter to Philemon. In this book, by contrast, Nina E. Livesey argues that th...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Livesey, Nina E., 1953-, The letters of Paul in their Roman literary context : reassessing apostolic authorship] (2025) (Cardona, Christian D.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pauline letters
/ Authenticity
/ Epistolary literature
/ Classical antiquity
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| RelBib Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Epistles of Paul
Authorship
B Bible. Epistles of Paul Criticism, Form B Bible. Epistles of Paul Language, style |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | Since the late-nineteenth century, scholars have all but concluded that the Apostle Paul authored six authentic community letters (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonian) and one individual letter to Philemon. In this book, by contrast, Nina E. Livesey argues that this long-held interpretation has been inadequately substantiated and theorized. In her groundbreaking study, Livesey reassesses the authentic perspective and, based on her research, reclassifies the letters as pseudonymous and letters-in-form-only. Like Seneca with his Moral Epistles, authors of Pauline letters extensively exploited the letter genre for its many rhetorical benefits to promote disciplinary teachings. Based on the types of issues addressed and the earliest known evidence of a collection, Livesey dates the letters' emergence to the mid-second century and the Roman school of Marcion. Her study significantly revises the understanding of Christian letters and conceptions of early Christianity, as it likewise reflects the benefit of cross-disciplinarity. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Dec 2024) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 324 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-48706-1 978-1-009-48705-4 978-1-009-48707-8 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009487061 |
