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Nina E. Livesey (University of Oklahoma)

The Letters of Paul in their Roman Literary Context

Reassessing Apostolic Authorship

Nina E. Livesey (University of Oklahoma)

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Cambridge University Press
12 December 2024
Religion & beliefs; New Testaments
Since the late-nineteenth century, scholars have all but concluded that the Apostle Paul authored six authentic community letters (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonian) and one individual letter to Philemon. In this book, by contrast, Nina E. Livesey argues that this long-held interpretation has been inadequately substantiated and theorized. In her groundbreaking study, Livesey reassesses the authentic perspective and, based on her research, reclassifies the letters as pseudonymous and letters-in-form-only. Like Seneca with his Moral Epistles, authors of Pauline letters extensively exploited the letter genre for its many rhetorical benefits to promote disciplinary teachings. Based on the types of issues addressed and the earliest known evidence of a collection, Livesey dates the letters' emergence to the mid-second century and the Roman school of Marcion. Her study significantly revises the understanding of Christian letters and conceptions of early Christianity, as it likewise reflects the benefit of cross-disciplinarity.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:   9781009487054
ISBN 10:   1009487051
Pages:   346
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction: challenging a prevailing paradigm; 1. The press toward the authentic-letter perspective; 2. Paul, pauline communities, and genuine correspondence; 3. Seneca's moral epistles and pauline letters as teachings; 4. Pauline letters as second century school-setting compositions; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Nina E. Livesey is Professor of Religious Studies, Emerita at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol (2010) and Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis (2016).

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