Reflections and Projections on a Continuing Discussion: Redescribing Paul in His Social World
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The recent monograph, Paul, Founder of Churches (2012), raises a range of theoretical and methodological questions about the deployment of comparison in the description and analysis of ancient Christian phenomena. This essay responds to a range of critical responses to this volume raised by participants in a 2011 panel during a Society of Biblical Literature Greco-Roman Religions session devoted to discussion of the book.
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Touna’s response, this volume, p. 290.
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Cicero, Rep. 2.1.2, see, Paul, Founder of Churches, p. 47. This is what both Greeks and outsiders like Cicero recognize in the foundation pattern, a feature distinctively Greek.
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James F. Hamill, Ethno-Logic: The Anthropology of Human Reasoning (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990): 17–18; 40–43.
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Paul, Founder of Churches, pp. 115–124.
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This volume, p. 304.
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This volume, p. 305.
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Robert L. Wilken, John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983).
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Reflections and Projections on a Continuing Discussion: Redescribing Paul in His Social World
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Abstract
The recent monograph, Paul, Founder of Churches (2012), raises a range of theoretical and methodological questions about the deployment of comparison in the description and analysis of ancient Christian phenomena. This essay responds to a range of critical responses to this volume raised by participants in a 2011 panel during a Society of Biblical Literature Greco-Roman Religions session devoted to discussion of the book.
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