NT030-812 - Interpreting and Applying 2 Corinthians

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  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
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  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps NT

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT704-4.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of 2 Corinthians

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship on the interpretation and application of 2 Corinthians

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of 2 Corinthians

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of 2 Corinthians
 

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying 2 Corinthians’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

  1. Exegetical study of 2 Corinthians, including attention to application
  2. Investigation of selected themes from the letter (including their contemporary implications for Christian living and Christian ministry) such as:
    1. apostleship and apostolicity,
    2. grace,
    3. authenticity and truth,
    4. holiness,
    5. conflict and reconciliation,
    6. hope,
    7. suffering,
    8. sorrow and joy,
    9. power and weakness,
    10. wisdom and folly,
    11. glory and shame.

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.

 

Prescribed:

Hafemann, Scott J., 2 Corinthians (NIVAC; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000).

OR

Harris, Murray J., The Second Epistle to the Corinthians: A Commentary on the Greek Text (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005).

OR

Seifrid, Mark, The Second Letter to the Corinthians (Pillar; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014).

OR

another commentary of equivalent currency and quality.

 

Recommended:

Andrews, Scott B., “Too Weak Not to Lead: The Form and Function of 2 Cor 11.23b-33”, NTS 41 (1995): 263-276.

Barclay, John M. G. “‘Because He Was Rich He Became Poor’: Translation, Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Reading of 2 Cor 8.9.” In Theologizing in the Corinthian Conflict: Studies in the Exegesis and Theology of 2 Corinthians, edited by R. Bieringer, M. Ibita and D. Kurek-Chomycz (Leuven: Peeters, 2013): 331-44.

——, “Manna and the Circulation of Grace: A Study of 2 Corinthians 8:1-15.” In The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology in Honor of Richard B. Hays, edited by J. Ross Wagner, C. Kavin Rowe and A. Katherine Grieb (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008): 409-26.

Barnett, Paul, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians (NICNT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).

——, “Paul, Apologist to the Corinthians” in Paul and the Corinthians: Studies on a Community in Conflict: Essays in Honour of Margaret Thrall, ed. Trevor J. Burke and J. K. Elliott (NovTSup 109; Leiden: Brill, 2003): 313-26.

Belleville, Linda L., “'Imitate Me, Just as I Imitate Christ': Discipleship in the Corinthian Correspondence” in Patterns of Discipleship in the New Testament, ed. Richard N. Longenecker (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996): 120-42.

Burke, Trevor J., and J. K. Elliott, ed., Paul and the Corinthians: Studies on a Community in Conflict: Essays in Honour of Margaret Thrall (NovTSup 109; Leiden: Brill, 2003).

Gignilliat, Mark S., Paul and Isaiah's Servants: Paul's Theological Reading of Isaiah 40-66 in 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:10 (LNTS 330; London: T&T Clark, 2007).

Gorman, Michael J., Cruciformity: Paul's Narrative Spirituality of the Cross (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).

Hafemann, Scott J., “'Because of Weakness' (Galatians 4:13): The Role of Suffering in the Mission of Paul” in The Gospel to the Nations: Perspectives on Paul's Mission, ed. Peter Bolt and Mark Thompson (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000): 131-46.

——, Suffering and Ministry in the Spirit: Paul's Defense of His Ministry in II Corinthians 2:14-3:3 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990).

Harrison, James R., Paul's Language of Grace in its Graeco-Roman Context (WUNT 2/172; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003).

——, “The Brothers as The "Glory of Christ" (2 Cor 8:23): Paul's Doxa Terminology in its Ancient Benefaction Context”, NovT 52 (2010): 156-88.

Hall, David R. The Unity of the Corinthian Correspondence (JSNTSup; London: T&T Clark, 2003).

Harvey, A. E., Renewal through Suffering: A Study of 2 Corinthians (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996).

Lambrecht, Jan, “'Strength in Weakness': A Reply to Scott B. Andrews' Exegesis of 2 Cor 11:23b-33”, NTS 43 (1997): 285-90.

Martin, Ralph P. 2 Corinthians. WBC. Rev. ed.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014.

——, “Theology and Mission in 2 Corinthians” in The Gospel to the Nations: Perspectives on Paul's Mission, ed. Peter Bolt and Mark Thompson (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000): 63-82.

Pickett, Raymond, The Cross in Corinth: The Social Significance of the Death of Jesus (JSNTSup 143; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).

Savage, Timothy B., Power through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in 2 Corinthians (New York: CUP, 1996).

Starling, David I., “The Apistoi of 2 Cor. 6:14: Beyond the Impasse,” NovT 55 (2012): 1-17.

——, “Meditations on a Slippery Citation: Paul’s Use of Psalm 112:9 in 2 Corinthians 9:9,” JTI 6 (2012): 241-55.

——, “‘We Do Not Want You to Be Unaware…’: Disclosure, Concealment and Suffering in 2 Cor 1-7,” NTS 60 (2014): 266-279.

Strom, Mark, Reframing Paul: Conversations in Grace and Community (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000).

Sumney, Jerry L., “Paul's 'Weakness': An Integral Part of His Conception of Apostleship”, JSNT (1993): 71-91.

——, 'Servants of Satan', 'False Brothers' and Other Opponents of Paul (JSNTSup 188; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).

Thrall, Margaret E., A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians (2 vols.; ICC; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994).

Vegge, Ivar, 2 Corinthians - A Letter About Reconciliation: A Psychagogical, Epistolographical and Rhetorical Analysis (WUNT 2/239; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008).

Webb, William J., “Unequally Yoked Together with Unbelievers”, BSac 149 (1992): 27-44, 162-79.

Welborn, L. L., Politics and Rhetoric in the Corinthian Epistles (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1997).

——, “Paul and Pain: Paul’s Emotional Therapy in 2 Cor. 1:1-2:13; 7:5-16 in the Context of Ancient Psychagogic Literature”, NTS 57 (2011): 547-50.

——, “'That There May Be Equality': The Contexts and Consequences of a Pauline Ideal.” NTS 59 (2013): 73-90.

Winter, Bruce W., Philo and Paul among the Sophists (2nd edn; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).

Witherington, B. W. III, Conflict and Community in Corinth: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995).

Wright, N.T., “On Becoming the Righteousness of God: 2 Corinthians 5:21.” In Pauline Theology, Volume II: 1 and 2 Corinthians, edited by David M. Hay (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993): 200-08.

——, Paul and the Faithfulness of God.  London: SPCK, 2013.

 

Classics:

Black, David Alan, Paul, Apostle of Weakness: Astheneia and its Cognates in the Pauline Literature (New York: Lang, 1984).

Forbes, Christopher, “Comparison, Self-Praise and Irony: Paul's Boasting and the Conventions of Hellenistic Rhetoric”, NTS 32 (1986): 1-30.

Marshall, Peter, Enmity in Corinth: Social Conventions in Paul's Relations with the Corinthians (WUNT 2/23; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1987).

Young, Frances M., and David Ford, Meaning and Truth in 2 Corinthians (London: SPCK, 1987).