“God Is Witness” A Classical Rhetorical Idiom in Its Pauline Usage.

Five times in the undisputed letters Paul invokes God as guarantor of the truth of a claim with a form of the phrase “God is witness.” Interpreters have long identified these sayings as self-imprecatory oaths after a pattern attested in the Hebrew Bible. In this article, I argue that the Pauline phr...

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Publicado en:	Novum Testamentum Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 355 - 376
Autor principal:	Novenson, Matthew V.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Brill Academic Publishers Sep2010
Materias:	Attributes of God Witness bearing (Christianity) Witness bearing (Christianity) in the Bible Paul, the Apostle, Saint Christianity Truth
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