"When you were gentiles"
Subtitle: specters of ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian correspondence
By: Cavan W. Concannon
Series: Synkrisis: comparative approaches to early Christianity in Greco-Roman culture; Synkrisis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Haven and London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780300197938
Subjects: Gentiles in the Bible; Ethnicity in the Bible; Bible; Bibeln; Icke-judar i Bibeln; Criticism, interpretation; Ethnische Identität; Etnicitet i Bibeln
Description: Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul&#x2019;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. In doing so, the author provides readers a unique opportunity to assess anew, and imagine possibilities beyond, Paul&#x2019;s complicated legacy in shaping Western notions of race, ethnicity, and religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Of ghosts and specters : the reception of Paul's rhetoric of ethnicity in Corinth; title: pt. 1 Corinth and Corinthians between Greece and Rome; title: Becoming all things: Paul and the rhetoric of ethic malleability; title: Marketplaces, merchant ships, and festivals: negotiating identities in Corinth; title: Speech, flattery, and the negotiation of identity for "some" Corinthians; title: pt. 2 Corinth and Corinthians between past and present; title: Walking in the wilderness: Israelite ancestors in the Corinthian correspondence; title: "In the city of Peirene": claiming, erasing, and challenging the past in Corinth; title: Usable pasts in the Corinthian wilderness: spirits, specters, and negotiations of identity at the crossroads; title: Conclusion: Haunted futures.