Title: A new temple for Corinth
First published: 1997
Description: A New Temple for Corinth examines the role that St. Paul's image of the community as a temple plays in his overall rhetorical argument in 1 Corinthians. It challenges traditional notions that Paul is inviting his correspondents to understand themselves as a new temple replacing the one in Jerusalem. Rather, Paul uses a cultic metaphor that both Gentile and Jew could understand to introduce his central motif of community upbuilding for the sake of the common good.

This examination of first-century Corinthian archaeology suggests methods to correct and complement previous literary and historical critical analyses of the Pauline corpus.
Subjects: Antiquities, Bible, Criticism, interpretation, Excavations (Archaeology), Language, style, Religion, Temple of God, Temples, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. epistles, Excavations (archaeology), europe, Corinth (greece), antiquities
Places: Corinth, Corinth (Greece), Greece
LC classification: BS2675.2 .L26 1997