T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul (T&T Clark Handbooks)

"The T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul gathers leading voices on various aspects of Paul's biography into a thorough reconsideration of him as a historical figure. The contributors show how recent trends in Pauline scholarship have invited new questions about a variety of topics, including his social location, his mode of subsistence, his cultural formation, his place within Judaism, his religious experience and practice, and his affinities with other religious actors of the Roman world. Through careful attention to biographical detail, social context, and historical method, it seeks to describe him as a contextually plausible social actor. The volume is structured in three parts. Part One introduces sources, methods, and historiographical approaches, surveying the foundational texts for Paul and the early Pauline tradition. Part Two examines key biographical questions pertaining to Paul's bodily comportment, the material aspects of his career, and his religious activities. Part Three reconstructs the biographical portraits of Paul that emerge from the letters associated with him, presenting a series of "micro-biographies" pieced together by leading Pauline scholars."-- Cover Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS TABLES NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTER ONE Introduction RYAN S. SCHELLENBERG AND HEIDI WENDT PART ONE Sources and Methodology CHAPTER TWO The Corpus Paulinum LEIF E. VAAGE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION A MODEST METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL SKAFF DEG EIT LIV! AGAINST THE PREMATURE DEATH OF BIOGRAPHY22 CHAPTER THREE Acts CHRISTOPHER MOUNT HISTORY AND STORIES ABOUT GODS FIRST CENTURY VERSUS SECOND CENTURY THE PASTORAL LETTERS AND THE WE-NARRATOR OF ACTS SOURCES FOR INFORMATION ABOUT PAUL IN ACTS 16–28 SOURCES FOR PAUL IN ACTS 8–15 AND PAUL’S LETTER TO GALATIA PLINY, TACITUS, AND SUETONIUS JOSEPHUS, PAPIAS, AND THE PREFACES TO LUKE-ACTS THE PLACE OF ACTS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY CHAPTER FOUR The Pauline Tradition BENJAMIN L. WHITE PRESENT PRACTICES AND THEIR PROBLEMS OUTLINE FOR A NEW APPROACH TO PAULINE BIOGRAPHY CONCLUSION CHAPTER FIVE The Manuscript Tradition BRENT NONGBRI COLLECTIONS OF PAUL’S LETTERS COLLECTING LETTERS AS AN ACT OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING COLLECTING PAUL’S LETTERS AUTHENTICITY AND ATTRIBUTION OF AUTHORSHIP IN MANUSCRIPTS CONCLUSION CHAPTER SIX Person, Character, Self EVE-MARIE BECKER HEURISTICS, METHODS, AND APORIAS OF BIOGRAPHY WRITING SCHOLARLY APPROACHES TO PAUL’S PERSON, CHARACTER, AND SELF CONCLUSION PART TWO Biographical Problems CHAPTER SEVEN Travel and Homelessness TIMOTHY LUCKRITZ MARQUIS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL UNDER ROME TRAVELERS AND THEIR MOTIVATIONS: LEAVING AND ARRIVING THE SEARCH FOR A HOME: MOBILITY AND HOMELESSNESS PAUL’S TRAVELING RHETORIC CHAPTER EIGHT Manual Labor and Sustenance THOMAS R. BLANTON IV MULTIPLE SOURCES OF INCOME AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT PAUL’S LABOR PAUL’S CRAFT AND STANDARD OF LIVING ACCORDING TO ACTS WAGES AND LIVING EXPENSES: THE MEDITERRANEAN RESPECTABILITY BASKET DEPRIVATION AND TRAVEL CONCLUSION CHAPTER NINE Beatings and Imprisonments RYAN S. SCHELLENBERG AN INNOCENT PRISONER IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ACTS COMMEMORATING PAUL’S CHAINS IN THE DEUTERO PAULINELETTERS “FAR MORE IMPRISONMENTS” IN THE LETTERS OF PAUL POPULAR JUSTICE AND SEMI-FORMAL SANCTIONS ORDINARY DETENTION THE HUMILIATION OF OUR BODY CONCLUSION CHAPTER TEN Appearance and Health LOUISE J. LAWRENCE AN ENSLAVED, WEAK, AND PIERCED BODY: PAUL’S OWN WRITINGS EMASCULATION AND DISABILITY: THE BOOK OF ACTS PAUL’S UNATTRACTIVENESS: ACTS OF PAUL AND THECLA “LOOKING IN THE MIRROR DARKLY”: PAUL’S APPEARANCE AND HEALTH CHAPTER ELEVEN Singleness and Celibacy CALVIN J. ROETZEL A HAPPILY UNMARRIED MAN THE ROMAN CONTEXT THE HELLENISTIC CONTEXT THE DIASPORA JEWISH CONTEXT PAUL AND CELIBACY CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWELVE Ioudaios, Pharisee, Zealot MATTHEW V. NOVENSON IOUDAIOS PHARISEE ZEALOT CONCLUSION CHAPTER THIRTEEN Literacy and Education PAUL ROBERTSON LETTER WRITING EPISTOLARY FORMULAS STRATEGIES FROM ANCIENT RHETORIC ABSTRACT IDEAS AND CONCEPTS ETHICS AND MORALIZING: CONCEPTS FROM RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY AN IMPORTANT CAVEAT: DID PAUL WRITE HIS OWN LETTERS? CONCLUSION CHAPTER FOURTEEN Mythmaking and Exegesis HEIDI WENDT A GENERAL CLIMATE OF MYTHMAKING TEXTUALITY AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY THE MECHANICS OF INSPIRED EXEGESIS PAUL’S MYTHMAKING AND EXEGESIS CONCLUSION CHAPTER FIFTEEN Divination and Miracles JENNIFER EYL GOD(S), RECIPROCITY, AND COMMUNICATION DIVINATIONS WONDERS, MIRACLES, OR MAGIC? TAXONOMIC DISTINCTION BEGINS WITH PAUL CONCLUSION CHAPTER SIXTEEN Religious Experience COLLEEN SHANTZ EVIDENCE, METHOD, AND INTERPRETATION PRECEDENTS AND PARALLELS BIOGRAPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE CONCLUSION CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Death DAVID L. EASTMAN PAUL’S DEATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 1 CLEMENT AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF PAUL’S DEATH LATER TRADITIONS OF PAUL’S DEATH HISTORICAL DETAILS? INTERPRETING PAUL IN LIGHT OF HIS DEATH CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Chronology DOUGLAS A. CAMPBELL GENERATING A LETTER-BASED CHRONOLOGY ACTS DATA FINAL CHRONOLOGICAL SCHEMA PART THREE Epistolary Micro-Biographies CHAPTER NINETEEN Romans KATHY EHRENSPERGER APOSTLE TO THE NATIONS PAUL AS PART OF A NETWORK “I MYSELF AM AN ISRAELITE” TRAVEL PLANS THE COLLECTION PHOEBE AND THE NETWORK OF CO-WORKERS IN ROME CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWENTY The Corinthian Correspondence PAUL B. DUFF PAUL BEFORE CORINTH PAUL ARRIVES IN CORINTH 1 CORINTHIANS THE LETTERS CONTAINED IN CANONICAL 2 CORINTHIANS THE COLLECTION LETTERS (2 CORINTHIANS 8 AND 9) THE FIRST APOLOGY (2 CORINTHIANS 2:14–7:4, EXCLUDING 6:14–7:1) PAUL’S SECOND VISIT TO CORINTH: THE “PAINFUL VISIT” THE SECOND APOLOGY (2 CORINTHIANS 10–13) THE LETTER TOWARD RECONCILIATION (2 CORINTHIANS 1:1–2:13; 7:5–16)71 CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Galatians MARK D. NANOS AND HEIDI WENDT GALATIA AS THE LOCATION OF PAUL’S ADDRESSEES RHETORICAL FEATURES OF GALATIANS PAUL’S FORMER LIFE IN JUDAISM: “PERSECUTION” OR INTELLECTUAL COMPETITION? JUDAIZERS, CIRCUMCISION, AND THE LAW A MEETING IN JERUSALEM: COMPANIONS, CO-WORKERS, AND NETWORKS CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Philippians and Philemon ANGELA STANDHARTINGER PAUL BEFORE PHILIPPIANS PAUL’S EARLY HISTORY AT PHILIPPI PAUL AT THE TIME OF HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PHILIPPIANS PAUL AFTER PHILIPPIANS THE HISTORICAL PAUL OF PHILEMON CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 1 & 2 Thessalonians RICHARD S. ASCOUGH TRAVEL INITIAL CONTACT AND RECRUITMENT AFFLICTION AND RIVALS CONTINUING INTERACTIONS RITUAL PRACTICES SOURCES OF AUTHORITY AND SELF-AUTHORIZATION AFFECTIVE LANDSCAPE CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Colossians and Ephesians MARGARET Y. MACDONALD DEPICTING PAUL’S IDENTITY: WHY READ COLOSSIANS AND EPHESIANS TOGETHER? DISTINCTIVE BIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS IN COLOSSIANS DISTINCTIVE BIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTS IN EPHESIANS CONCLUSION CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The Pastoral Epistles SIMON BUTTICAZ FROM “AUTHORSHIP” TO “RECEPTION” THE RECEPTION OF PAUL IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES THE PAUL OF THE PASTORALS: THIRD-GENERATION PAULINE CHRISTIANITY THE PASTORAL EPISTLES IN PAULINE STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS SUBJECT INDEX INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES "Reconsiders Paul's life including his literacy, social location and place within Judaism, surveys all the literary and historical sources, and reconstructs potential "micro-biographies" from the texts associated with Paul"-- Provided by publisher