Nina E. Livesey, The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context: Reassessing Apostolic Authorship, Cambridge University Press.
available from: July 2024 (in Hardback)
Book description
Since the late-nineteenth century scholars have all but concluded that the Apostle Paul authored six authentic community letters (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonian) and one individual letter to Philemon. In this book, by contrast, Nina E. Livesey argues that this long-held interpretation has been inadequately substantiated and theorized. In her ground-breaking study, Livesey reassesses the authentic perspective and, based on her research, reclassifies the letters as pseudonymous and letters-in-form-only. Like Seneca with his Moral Epistles, authors of Pauline letters extensively exploited the letter genre for its many rhetorical benefits to promote disciplinary teachings. Based on the types of issues addressed and the earliest known evidence of a collection, Livesey dates the letters' emergence to the mid-second century and the Roman school of Marcion. Her study significantly revises the understanding of Christian letters and conceptions of early Christianity, as it likewise reflects the benefit of cross-disciplinarity.
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Livesey, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma (College of Professional and Continuing Studies), published a 2016 monograph, Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis: Demosthenes, Cicero and Paul (Polebridge Press), which "probes techniques of persuasion around four general themes (urgency, promotion of self, emotive language, and disjuncture) and compares those themes across the Philippic speeches of Demosthenes and Cicero and Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. Against conventional Pauline scholarship, I demonstrate a broad use of rhetorical techniques in the NT letter of Galatians." via http://ninalivesey.oucreate.com/
And see https://sites.google.com/view/ninalivesey* and https://ninalivesey.oucreate.com/scholarship/
* "My training is in biblical studies with a specialization in Pauline letters. My scholarship can be broadly characterized as the investigation into various aspects of Christian emergence. My first book, Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol (Mohr Siebeck, 2010), explores interpretations of the Hebrew rite of circumcision across a diversity of ancient texts and challenges a common assumption of a unitary signification of this Judean practice. My second book, Galatians, and the Rhetoric of Crisis: Demosthenes, Cicero, and Paul (Polebridge Press, 2016), is a comparative study of the rhetoric of urgency, encomium, emotive language, and disjuncture across the Philippic speeches of Demosthenes and Cicero and Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. Against traditional scholarship, the book provides evidence of a wide use of rhetoric in Galatians."
available from: July 2024 (in Hardback)
Book description
Since the late-nineteenth century scholars have all but concluded that the Apostle Paul authored six authentic community letters (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonian) and one individual letter to Philemon. In this book, by contrast, Nina E. Livesey argues that this long-held interpretation has been inadequately substantiated and theorized. In her ground-breaking study, Livesey reassesses the authentic perspective and, based on her research, reclassifies the letters as pseudonymous and letters-in-form-only. Like Seneca with his Moral Epistles, authors of Pauline letters extensively exploited the letter genre for its many rhetorical benefits to promote disciplinary teachings. Based on the types of issues addressed and the earliest known evidence of a collection, Livesey dates the letters' emergence to the mid-second century and the Roman school of Marcion. Her study significantly revises the understanding of Christian letters and conceptions of early Christianity, as it likewise reflects the benefit of cross-disciplinarity.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/le ... nformation
eta
Livesey, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma (College of Professional and Continuing Studies), published a 2016 monograph, Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis: Demosthenes, Cicero and Paul (Polebridge Press), which "probes techniques of persuasion around four general themes (urgency, promotion of self, emotive language, and disjuncture) and compares those themes across the Philippic speeches of Demosthenes and Cicero and Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. Against conventional Pauline scholarship, I demonstrate a broad use of rhetorical techniques in the NT letter of Galatians." via http://ninalivesey.oucreate.com/
And see https://sites.google.com/view/ninalivesey* and https://ninalivesey.oucreate.com/scholarship/
* "My training is in biblical studies with a specialization in Pauline letters. My scholarship can be broadly characterized as the investigation into various aspects of Christian emergence. My first book, Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol (Mohr Siebeck, 2010), explores interpretations of the Hebrew rite of circumcision across a diversity of ancient texts and challenges a common assumption of a unitary signification of this Judean practice. My second book, Galatians, and the Rhetoric of Crisis: Demosthenes, Cicero, and Paul (Polebridge Press, 2016), is a comparative study of the rhetoric of urgency, encomium, emotive language, and disjuncture across the Philippic speeches of Demosthenes and Cicero and Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. Against traditional scholarship, the book provides evidence of a wide use of rhetoric in Galatians."
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