The Language of Belonging: A Rhetorical Analysis of Kinship Language in First Corinthians

by Mary Katherine Birge

By employing a rigorous historio-rhetorical exegesis of each unit in chaps. 3-6 and 14, Birge explores how Paul, in his First Letter to the Corinthians, used the same kinship images and language in different pastoral situations to address the situation of disharmony and division among the Corinthians (1:10). She investigates the possible sources for Paul's 'ideas' about kinship images and language by examining likely influences on him from his social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042911026
• ISBN13: 9789042911024
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 223 Pages