Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor

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Dr. David Anthony Basham (Scholar-in-Residence, Ashland University, USA) Chris Keith (Norwegian School of Theology Religion and Society Norway)

Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor

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Dr. David Anthony Basham (Scholar-in-Residence, Ashland University, USA), Chris Keith (Norwegian School of Theology Religion and Society Norway)

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T.& T.Clark Ltd
28 May 2026

New Testaments

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies

David Anthony Basham argues that Paul and the Corinthians share a “system of associated commonplaces” about the Jerusalem temple. Basham proposes that when Paul applies temple language to the Corinthians by calling them naos theou (“God’s temple”), he sparks a creative process of interaction between the temple and the Corinthian assembly — a process of selecting, emphasizing, and organizing information from the source domain (temple) to see the target domain (the Corinthians) in a new light.

Basham suggests that, in understanding Paul’s fraught relationship with certain institutions of Second Temple Judaism and his conception of gentile inclusion, we can appreciate the creative ways in which he employs cultic imagery to describe his ministry and the ritual life of early gentile believers. By exploring the construction of metaphor, the depiction of the Jerusalem temple in Paul’s letters, and Judaean religion among gentiles, Basham demonstrates that Paul’s temple metaphor speaks to a new cultic reality for gentiles-in-Christ that is linked to Israel’s worship, though detached from its actual expression in Jerusalem.

By: Dr. David Anthony Basham (Scholar-in-Residence Ashland University USA)
Edited by: Chris Keith (Norwegian School of Theology Religion and Society Norway)
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780567718365
ISBN 10: 0567718360
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 28 May 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Anthony Basham is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio, USA.