Paul's Paradigmatic I: Personal Example as Literary Strategy

by Brian J. Dodd

This study claims that Paul uses his personal example as an explicit literary strategy in 1 Corinthians, Galatians and Philippians, and as an arguably implicit strategy in 1 Thessalonians and Philemon. He uses his own example to ground and illustrate his argumentation in a rhetorically sophisticated manner, often structuring his argument on such a basis. In places a crisp statement of his own case serves as a thesis statement of the argument that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850759146
• ISBN13: 9781850759140
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"