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A new study of Paul's call for reconciliation in 2 Corinthians, in terms of the epistle's rhetorical structure and its effect on its intended listeners.
Is Second Corinthians, one of Paul's most personal and passionate letters, better understood as a text or a performance? Using an audience-oriented method, Timothy Milinovich examines the letter as orally performed correspondence, from the view of the authorial (i.e., intended or ideal) audience. What results is an original structural analysis of 2 Corinthians 1:1-6:2, denoting twenty chiastic units and three larger macrochiastic arguments. This arrangement is intended to show what the authorial audience heard, offering a new way of understanding how Paul's letter would have been received - not based on modern thematically determined paragraphs, but on oral patterns consonant with the cultural context of the author and audience.
Milinovich offers insight on the audience response to the climactic exhortation to reconciliation with the apostle in 5:16-6:2. He determines that the structure of the unit is the key to its theological and rhetorical message, which is just as much concerned with the community's relationship with Paul as with God. That is, if they are to fully receive the salvation that God intends for them, the community must be reconciled with their apostle now, at the hearing of this letter.
Is Second Corinthians, one of Paul's most personal and passionate letters, better understood as a text or a performance? Using an audience-oriented method, Timothy Milinovich examines the letter as orally performed correspondence, from the view of the authorial (i.e., intended or ideal) audience. What results is an original structural analysis of 2 Corinthians 1:1-6:2, denoting twenty chiastic units and three larger macrochiastic arguments. This arrangement is intended to show what the authorial audience heard, offering a new way of understanding how Paul's letter would have been received - not based on modern thematically determined paragraphs, but on oral patterns consonant with the cultural context of the author and audience.
Milinovich offers insight on the audience response to the climactic exhortation to reconciliation with the apostle in 5:16-6:2. He determines that the structure of the unit is the key to its theological and rhetorical message, which is just as much concerned with the community's relationship with Paul as with God. That is, if they are to fully receive the salvation that God intends for them, the community must be reconciled with their apostle now, at the hearing of this letter.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 188
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
28 June 2012
Trim Size: 9.02 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9780718892647
Format: Paperback
Milinovich places the text of 2 Corinthians at the centre and analyses its structure to see how those Christians in Corinth in AD 55 (or whenever) would have responded to Paul's letter. [...] this is still an important contribution to understanding the first part of 2 Corinthians.
— Geoffrey Turner in Heythrop Journal, Vol. 54 (1), January 2013.
...this is a valuable and engaging study.
— Robert S. Dutch
This detailed analysis of a key section of 2 Corinthians perceptively demonstrates how an audience-oriented close listening to the text not only contributes to an ongoing trend to view this Pauline letter as a unified composition, but provides a model that can be profitably applied to other problematic parts of the New Testament. Its theme of renewal and reconciliation is as relevant for us today as it was for Paul and the Corinthians.
— John Paul Heil, Professor of New Testament, The Catholic University of America
This arrangement is intended to show what the authorial audience heard, offering a new way of understanding how Paul's letter would have been received - not based on modern thematically determined paragraphs, but on oral patterns consonant with the cultural context of the author and audience. Milinovich offers insight on the audience response to the climactic exhortation to reconciliation with the apostle in 5:16-6:2.
— Geoffrey Turner in Heythrop Journal, Vol. 54 (1), January 2013.
...this is a valuable and engaging study.
— Robert S. Dutch
This detailed analysis of a key section of 2 Corinthians perceptively demonstrates how an audience-oriented close listening to the text not only contributes to an ongoing trend to view this Pauline letter as a unified composition, but provides a model that can be profitably applied to other problematic parts of the New Testament. Its theme of renewal and reconciliation is as relevant for us today as it was for Paul and the Corinthians.
— John Paul Heil, Professor of New Testament, The Catholic University of America
This arrangement is intended to show what the authorial audience heard, offering a new way of understanding how Paul's letter would have been received - not based on modern thematically determined paragraphs, but on oral patterns consonant with the cultural context of the author and audience. Milinovich offers insight on the audience response to the climactic exhortation to reconciliation with the apostle in 5:16-6:2.
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Method and Perspective
2 Chiastic Structure in 2 Corinthians 1:1-6:2
3 Audience Response to 1:1-2:13
4 Audience Response to 2:14-4:14
5 Audience Response to 4:15-5:15
6 Audience Response to 5:16-6:2
7 Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Method and Perspective
2 Chiastic Structure in 2 Corinthians 1:1-6:2
3 Audience Response to 1:1-2:13
4 Audience Response to 2:14-4:14
5 Audience Response to 4:15-5:15
6 Audience Response to 5:16-6:2
7 Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography