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The Heavenly Trumpet

John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation

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Publisher:
Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date:
4/1/2002
ISBN:
9780664225100
Pages:
563
Trim Size
6x9
Product Type:
Paper

Arguing that all Pauline interpretation depends significantly on the ways in which readers formulate their own images of the apostle, Margaret M. Mitchell posits that John Chrysostom, the most prolific interpreter of the Pauline epistles in the early church, exemplifies this phenomenon. Mitchell brings together Chrysostom's copious portraits of Paul--of his body, his soul, and his life circumstances--and for the first time analyzes them as complex rhetorical compositions built on well-known conventions of Greco-Roman rhetoric. Two appendices offer a fresh translation of Chrysostom's seven homilies de laudibus sancti Pauli and a catalogue of color plates of artistic representations that graphically represent the author/exegete dynamic this study explores.

Margaret M. Mitchell is Dean and Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois.


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Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Vol. 73, No. 4, Dec. 2005) "[A] virtuoso performance on all counts....This book is meticulously researched, clearly argued, and well written." --O. Larry Yarbrough, Middlebury College
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