By Kieran O'Mahony
This is a e-book concerning the use of classical rhetoric in studying Paul. It starts with an invaluable assessment of a few of the innovations, and, within the gentle of the problems that emerge, it describes a rhetorical strategy that is then validated on 2 Corinthians 8-9. the following, the recommendation of the classical rhetorical manuals for developing a textual content is used-in opposite order-so as to discover the persuasive approach getting used by means of Paul therefore. this system ends up in a rather new examining of the 2 chapters, which O'Mahony then proceeds to check opposed to the normal paintings within the box through Hans Dieter Betz.
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Keegan 1985 simply ignores the Antiochean school. An exception is B. de Margerie 1993, who devotes an entire chapter to John Chrysostom. 3. See Jeanrond 1992: 434; Grant and Tracy 1984: ch. 7, pp. 63-72; Baur 1959:321. 4. Kelly 1995: 91 dates the homilies to 392/3. 2. History of Rhetorical Readings of 2 Corinthians 8-9 51 confirms his reputation as a speaker of great eloquence and power. He was a trained rhetor and it is possible that his early education in the art of speaking was under Libanius (see Pollastri 1882), a rhetor who himself had taught successively at Athens, at Nicomedia and at Antioch in Syria, the birthplace of John Chrysostom.
Kennedy's assertion that Paul was 'thoroughly at home in the Greek idiom of his time and in the conventions of Greek epistles' is borne out by the evidence of rhetorical arrangement, not only in the organisation of whole letters, but also in the parts of 1 Corinthians when he is dealing with different subjects. Manifestly he was so well trained that his skill was no longer conscious but instinctive (1996: 50). D. 10-11; Gal. 13, 23; 1 Cor. 6), then as a Christian missionary, means that he must have received a good Hellenistic education.
Homily 16 (2 Cor. 6). Chrysostom notices the change from encomiums (xoiq 8yKco(iioi(;) to exhortation (7rapaiv£oiv), the former preparing for the latter. Paul begins obliquely, praising the Macedonians in three ways; Chrysostom counts seven arguments, showing thereby that Paul is really insistent.