Second Corinthians and Paul's Gospel of Human Mortality

1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Preface [Seite 6]
3 - Table of Contents [Seite 10]
4 - Chapter 1: Introduction, Issues, Method [Seite 16]
4.1 - 1.1 Introduction [Seite 16]
4.2 - 1.2 Literary & Historical Reconstruction of Second Corinthians [Seite 20]
4.3 - 1.3 Opponents [Seite 24]
4.4 - 1.4 Method [Seite 27]
4.5 - 1.5 Implications [Seite 30]
5 - Chapter 2: Death in Ancient Corinth: Attitudes that Contributed to the Fall of an Afflicted Apostle [Seite 33]
5.1 - 2.1 Introduction [Seite 33]
5.2 - 2.2 The History and Culture of the Corinthia [Seite 34]
5.3 - 2.3 Attitudes Toward Death in Graeco-Roman Corinth [Seite 45]
5.4 - 2.4 Attitudes Toward Death in Graeco-Roman Literature [Seite 51]
5.4.1 - 2.4.1 Plato: Phaedo [Seite 53]
5.4.1.1 - Plato's Body-Soul Dualism [Seite 54]
5.4.1.2 - Plato's Understanding of Physical Death [Seite 57]
5.4.1.3 - Plato's Understanding of the Soul's Immortality [Seite 58]
5.4.1.4 - Plato in Corinth [Seite 59]
5.4.2 - 2.4.2 Cicero: "Somnium Scipionis" in De Re Publica [Seite 61]
5.4.2.1 - Cicero's Personalisation of the Soul [Seite 62]
5.4.2.2 - Cicero in Corinth [Seite 65]
5.4.3 - 2.4.3 Virgil: Book Six of the Aeneid [Seite 66]
5.4.3.1 - Virgil's Depiction of Death [Seite 68]
5.4.3.2 - Virgil's Conceptualisation of Death [Seite 70]
5.4.3.3 - Echoes of Roman Funeral Practice [Seite 73]
5.4.3.4 - Virgil in Corinth [Seite 75]
5.5 - 2.5 Attitudes Toward Death in Roman Funeral Practice [Seite 77]
5.5.1 - 2.5.1 Pagan-Christian Syncretism [Seite 77]
5.5.2 - 2.5.2 Graeco-Roman Transition from Cremation to Inhumation [Seite 80]
5.5.3 - 2.5.3 The Roman Funeral and the Cult of the Dead [Seite 82]
5.5.3.1 - Rites for the Dying and Immediately Dead [Seite 83]
5.5.3.2 - Rites Following Death, Including Interment or Cremation [Seite 83]
5.5.3.3 - Rites Following Interment or Cremation [Seite 84]
5.5.3.4 - Continuity of Person, Corpse, and Soul in Roman Funeral Practice [Seite 84]
5.5.3.5 - Pre-burial Caution [Seite 85]
5.5.3.6 - Burial Procession [Seite 86]
5.5.3.7 - Burial Site Location [Seite 86]
5.5.3.8 - Burial Necessity [Seite 87]
5.5.3.9 - Corpse Manipulation [Seite 88]
5.5.3.10 - Corpse Handling [Seite 88]
5.5.3.11 - Post-burial Purification Rites [Seite 89]
5.5.3.12 - The Cult of the Manes [Seite 90]
5.6 - 2.6 Summary [Seite 92]
6 - Chapter 3: Paul's Experience of Death: 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 [Seite 95]
6.1 - 3.1 Recent History of Interpretation [Seite 95]
6.2 - 3.2 The Introductory Thanksgivings of 1 and 2 Corinthians [Seite 98]
6.3 - 3.3 Exegesis of 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 [Seite 100]
6.3.1 - 3.3.1 A Jewish Eulogy (Berakah) [Seite 103]
6.3.2 - 3.3.2 Beginning with Two Divine Descriptors [Seite 106]
6.3.3 - 3.3.3 An "Interpolation" on Pastoral Theology: 1.4-7 [Seite 109]
6.3.3.1 - Paul's Use of Pronouns in 1.4-7 [Seite 110]
6.3.3.2 - The Strengthening Character of God in 1.4-7 [Seite 113]
6.3.3.3 - The Centrality of Christ in 1.4-7 [Seite 115]
6.3.3.4 - The Present Character of God's Strengthening in 1.4-7 [Seite 116]
6.3.3.5 - Coupling Divine Strengthening and Human Mortality in 1.4-7 [Seite 118]
6.3.3.6 - Summary [Seite 119]
6.3.4 - 3.3.4 An Account of Mortal Affliction in Asia: 1.8-11 [Seite 120]
6.3.4.1 - Paul's Disclosure of His Asian Affliction in 1.8 [Seite 120]
6.3.4.2 - The Extravagance of Paul's Disclosure in 1.8 [Seite 123]
6.3.4.3 - Recapitulation or Counterpoint in 1.9? [Seite 125]
6.3.4.4 - The Interdependence of the Church in Affliction in 1.11 [Seite 127]
6.3.4.5 - Summary [Seite 128]
7 - Chapter 4: Paul's Theology of Death: 2 Corinthians 4.7-12 [Seite 130]
7.1 - 4.1 Introduction [Seite 130]
7.2 - 4.2 Paul's Turn Toward the Corporeal at 4.7 [Seite 131]
7.3 - 4.3 Exegesis of 2 Corinthians 4.7-12 [Seite 135]
7.3.1 - 4.3.1 The Antecedent to "Treasure" (????????) [Seite 136]
7.3.2 - 4.3.2 The Meaning of "Pottery Jars" (??????????? ????????) [Seite 145]
7.3.3 - 4.3.3 The Meaning of "in order that ... being" (??? ... ?) [Seite 147]
7.3.4 - 4.3.4 The Phenomenon of "Overabundance" (????????) [Seite 152]
7.3.5 - 4.3.5 Paul's Poetic Participial Pairing in 4.8-9 [Seite 154]
7.3.6 - 4.3.6 The Semantic Meaning of "Deadness" (????????) in 4.10 [Seite 156]
7.3.6.1 - Paul's Use of ????-Cognates [Seite 157]
7.3.6.2 - Paul's Only Other Use of ???????? in Romans 4.19 [Seite 160]
7.3.6.3 - ???????? in the Ancient Greek Corpus [Seite 164]
7.3.6.3.1 - ???????? in Severus [Seite 166]
7.3.6.3.2 - ???????? in Soranus of Ephesus [Seite 166]
7.3.6.3.3 - ???????? in Aretaeus of Cappadocia [Seite 167]
7.3.6.3.4 - ???????? in Galen of Pergamum [Seite 167]
7.3.6.3.5 - ???????? in Philumenus of Alexandria [Seite 169]
7.3.6.3.6 - ???????? in Shepherd of Hermas [Seite 169]
7.3.6.3.7 - ???????? in Irenaeus of Lyons [Seite 170]
7.3.6.3.8 - Summary [Seite 171]
7.3.6.4 - The Semantic Meaning of ???????? for Paul [Seite 172]
7.3.7 - 4.3.7 Paul's Recapitulation of 4.10 in 4.11 [Seite 174]
7.3.8 - 4.3.8 The Meaning of "being handed over" (??????????) in 4.11a [Seite 175]
7.3.9 - 4.3.9 The Fruitfulness of Paul's Mortality in 4.12 [Seite 179]
7.3.10 - 4.3.10 The Conceptual Parallelism Between 4.7 and 4.10-11 [Seite 180]
7.3.11 - 4.3.11 The Theological Meaning of "the deadness of Jesus" [Seite 183]
7.3.11.1 - Hans Windisch [Seite 183]
7.3.11.2 - Adolf Schlatter [Seite 184]
7.3.11.3 - Ernst Käsemann [Seite 185]
7.3.11.4 - Erhardt Güttgemanns [Seite 186]
7.3.11.5 - Walter Schmithals [Seite 187]
7.3.11.6 - Jean-François Collange [Seite 188]
7.3.11.7 - Jan Lambrecht [Seite 189]
7.3.11.8 - Summary Interpretation [Seite 190]
7.4 - 4.4 Summary [Seite 191]
8 - Chapter 5: Experience and Theology in Conversation: 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 and 4.7-12 [Seite 197]
8.1 - 5.1 Introduction [Seite 197]
8.2 - 5.2 The Correspondence of Vocabulary [Seite 198]
8.2.1 - 5.2.1 Significant Vocabulary Correspondence [Seite 199]
8.2.1.1 - Linking "overabundance" and "power" (???????? and ???????) [Seite 199]
8.2.1.2 - Paul's Only Two Uses of "despair" (???????????) in the NT [Seite 200]
8.2.1.3 - Paul's Only Two Uses of "work" (???????) in 2 Corinthians [Seite 202]
8.2.1.4 - The Degree of Agreement Between 1.11 and 4.15 [Seite 202]
8.2.2 - 5.2.2 Suggestive Vocabulary Correspondence [Seite 203]
8.2.2.1 - Concentration of ???-Cognates and Ironic Usage of ???-Cognates [Seite 203]
8.2.2.2 - Paul's Peculiar Language of "Death" (???????) [Seite 205]
8.2.2.3 - Paul's Use of ?????? to Characterise God [Seite 205]
8.2.3 - 5.2.3 Summary [Seite 206]
8.3 - 5.3 The Correspondence of Textual Character [Seite 206]
8.3.1 - 5.3.1 Degree of Parallelism [Seite 207]
8.3.2 - 5.3.2 Context of Crisis and Confidence [Seite 207]
8.3.3 - 5.3.3 Central Role for Jesus Christ [Seite 208]
8.3.4 - 5.3.4 Mortality as a Burden [Seite 209]
8.3.5 - 5.3.5 The Organicity of Death and Life [Seite 210]
8.3.6 - 5.3.6 God Has Altered the Nature of Death [Seite 210]
8.3.7 - 5.3.7 Introspective, Self-referential Tone [Seite 211]
8.3.8 - 5.3.8 Summary [Seite 213]
8.4 - 5.4 The Correspondence of Theology [Seite 213]
8.4.1 - 5.4.1 The Function of Human Mortality: Dislocation and Dependence [Seite 213]
8.4.1.1 - Dislocation and Dependence in 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 [Seite 214]
8.4.1.2 - Dislocation and Dependence in 2 Corinthians 4.7-12 [Seite 217]
8.4.2 - 5.4.2 The Consequence of Human Mortality: Freedom and Life [Seite 218]
8.4.2.1 - Freedom from Despair [Seite 219]
8.4.2.2 - Communication of Life [Seite 220]
8.5 - 5.5 Summary [Seite 224]
9 - Chapter 6: Conclusion [Seite 227]
9.1 - 6.1 Overview [Seite 227]
9.2 - 6.2 2 Corinthians Among the Paulines [Seite 230]
9.3 - 6.3 Indebtedness [Seite 235]
9.4 - 6.4 Contributions [Seite 237]
9.5 - 6.5 Future Work [Seite 237]
9.6 - 6.6 Implications [Seite 238]
10 - Appendix 1: Diagramming Paul's Experience of Death in 2 Corinthians 1.3-11 [Seite 244]
11 - Appendix 2: Diagramming Paul's Theology of Death in 2 Corinthians 4.7-12 [Seite 246]
12 - Appendix 3: Paul's Vocabulary of Death [Seite 247]
13 - Bibliography [Seite 250]
14 - Index of Ancient Sources [Seite 272]
14.1 - A. Hebrew Bible and Septuagint [Seite 272]
14.2 - B. New Testament [Seite 273]
14.3 - C. Other Ancient Sources [Seite 279]
15 - Index of Modern Authors [Seite 282]
16 - Index of Subjects [Seite 285]