소장자료

In a series of exchanges with the Corinthians in the mid-50s AD, Paul continually sought to define the meaning of his message, his body and his letters, at times insisting upon a literal understanding, at others urging the reader to move beyond the words to a deeper sense within. Proposing a fresh approach to early Christian exegesis, Margaret M. Mitchell shows how in the Corinthian letters Paul was fashioning the very principles that later authors would use to interpret all scripture. Ori...

Figures viii

Preface ix

Note on style xiii

List of abbreviations xiv

1 The Corinthian diolkos: passageway to early Christian biblical interpretation 1

2 The agon of Pauline interpretation 18

3 Anthropological hermeneutics: between rhetoric and philosophy 38

4 The mirror and the veil: hermeneutics of occlusion 58

5 Visible signs, multiple witnesses: interpretive criteria in the agonistic paradigm 79

6 Hermeneutical exhaustion and the end(s) of interpretation 95

Notes 116

Bibliography 159

Indexes 169