Pauline Persuasion A Sounding in 2 Corinthians 8-9
, by O'Mahony, KieranNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781841271491 | 1841271497
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/1/2001
This is a book about the use of classical rhetoric in reading Paul. It begins with a useful review of the various strategies, and, in the light of the issues that emerge, it describes a rhetorical method which is then tested on 2 Corinthians 8-9. Here, the advice of the classical rhetorical manuals for constructing a text is used-in reverse order-so as to uncover the persuasive strategy being used by Paul in this case. This technique leads to a quite new reading of the two chapters, which O'Mahony then proceeds to test against the standard work in the field by Hans Dieter Betz.