Reclaiming Paul?: Reconfiguration as Reclamation in 3 Corinthians.
Abstract:This article pursues an alternative approach to situating the historical circumstances and rhetorical strategies of the author of 3 Corinthians. Whereas most scholarship on 3 Corinthianshas set out to ascertain the specific opponents lurking behind the polemic of the text (Simon Magus, Satu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 497 - 524 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Winter2009
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