Ancient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology: The Compositional Unity of 2 Corinthians (2004 Long), book

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Ancient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology: The Compositional Unity of 2 Corinthians (2004) is a book by Fredrick J. Long.

Abstract

"Pauline scholarship has typically interpreted 2 Corinthians as a later editorial composite of several letters. Fredrick Long situates the text within Classical literary and rhetorical conventions and argues for its unity based upon numerous parallels with ancient apology in the tradition of Andocides, Socrates, Isocrates and Demosthenes. He provides a comprehensive survey and rigorous genre analysis of ancient forensic discourse in support of his claims, and demonstrates how the unified message of Paul's letter can be recovered."--Publisher's description

Editions and translations

Published in Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 131).

Contents

Part I.A survey of ancient forensic discourse -- The anatomy of a genre : sources, nature and features of forensic rhetoric -- Forensic exigency -- Forensic invention -- Forensic disposition -- Apologetic letters -- Part II. A rhetorical analysis of 2 Corinthians as ancient apology -- The rhetorical exigency of 2 Corinthians -- The rhetorical disposition of 2 Corinthians -- The rhetorical invention of 2 Corinthians -- The rhetoric of 2 Corinthians and the nature of Paul's theology

External links

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