LECTURE: Mon, January 28
Introduction to the course
Paul in church & history
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, Jan 31 - Feb 1
Introduction to an exegetical process
Read
exegetical instructions & review online example
LECTURE: Mon, Feb 4
Toward a "Life of Paul"
Required Reading:
Acts
7:54-8:3; 9:1-31; 15:1-41; 21:17-26; 28:11-31
Witherington, 9-88, 304-331
Karl
Donfried, "Chronology; The Pauline Correspondence," in The
Anchor BibleDictionary Vol 1:1016-1022. (Library Reference)
See the
internet site "As Paul Tells It" by Dr. J. Peter Bercovitz for a
chronology of Paul’s ministry based only on the undisputed epistles.
(I find myself in substantial agreement with this presentation.)
Within this site, read through:
"Acts as a
Source (1)"
"Letters
Based Chronology (1)
"Letters
Based Chronology (2)"
"Closing
Months (5)"
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, Feb 7-8
Philippians 3:2-14 (Translation,
grammar, variants)
@
"Net Bible" translation and
notes
Gorman, 35-58
LECTURE: Mon, Feb 11
Paul’s churches & Roman
society
Required Reading:
Wright, 7-62
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, Feb 14-15
Philippians 3:2-14 (continued)
Required Reading
Richard Hays, "Justification," in The Anchor Bible
Dictionary, Vol
3:1129-1133. (Library Reference)
"Chiasm," in Literary Forms in the New Testament, pp.
49-54
(Library Reserve)
Using a concordance, find all the times that Paul uses any form of the word
Óg™omai ("regard")
Translation and grammatical notes on the final text due
LECTURE: Mon, Feb 18
Paul’s letters & rhetoric
Required reading:
Witherington,
89-129
See the website
on the structure
of Paul's letters by Dr. Felix
Just
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, Feb 21-22
1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
(translation, grammar, variants)
"Net Bible" translation and
notes
LECTURE: Mon, Feb 25
1 Thessalonians and Pauline
eschatology
Required Reading:
1
Thessalonians, including the introductory material on 1 Thessalonians in
The Harper Collins Study Bible (Library Reserve)
Witherington,
130-173
Wright, 77-94
Helmut
Koester, "Imperial Ideology and Paul’s Eschatology,"
in Paul and Empire, ed. Richard A. Horsley, pp. 158-166.
(Library Reserve)
See Dr. Craig
Koester's website
on Thessalonica
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, Feb 28-29
1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
(continued)
Required Reading:
Gorman, 75-90
Schertz & Yoder, Seeing the
Text, 46-56 (Library Reserve)
"Apocalyptic Language and
Forms," in Literary Forms in the New Testament,
pp. 54-62
(Library Reserve)
See the suggested rhetorical
outline for 1 Thessalonians
Outline for final text due
LECTURE: Mon, March 3
Galatians: Paul
and the Law
Required Reading:
Galatians
Raymond
Brown, "Galatians" in An Introduction to the New Testament,
pp.
467-482 (Library Reserve)
Numbers 25;
Judith 9:1-4; 1 Macc 2:15-28; Sirach 44:19-21
Wright, 95-133
Krister Stendahl,
"The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West."
In Paul Among Jews and Gentiles, 78-96. Philadelphia: Fortress,
1976. (Library
Reserve)
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, March 6-7
Galatians 3:19-29 (translation,
grammar, variants)
"Net Bible" translation and
notes
LECTURE: Mon, March 10
Philippians
and Paul's Christology
Required Reading:
Philippians
Wright, 63-75
John T.
Fitzgerald, "Philippians, Epistle to the," in The Anchor Bible
Dictionary Vol. 5: 318-326 (Library Reference)
See the
suggested rhetorical outline for
Philippians
See Dr.
Craig Koester's website
dealing with Philippi
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, March 13-14
Galatians 3:19-29 (continued)
See the suggested rhetorical
outline for Galatians
Compare Galatians 3 with Deut. 33:2,
Psalm 68:17, Is. 63:8-9, 1 Cor. 12:13,
Col. 3:11
Read "Diatribe" in Literary
Forms in the New Testament, pp. 38-42 (Library Reserve)
Key Concept study for
final text due
March 17-21 -- Spring Break
LECTURE: Mon, March 24
1 Corinthians & Paul's ethics
Required Reading:
1 Corinthians
"Corinth" and "Corinthians, The First Letter of Paul to the"
in Harper Collins
Bible Dictionary (Revised), 198-204 (Library Reference)
Witherington, 263-278
Wright, 135-165
Richard Hays, "Ecclesiology
and Ethics in 1 Corinthians" (online article)
Look at the following websites dealing with Corinth:
Dr. Craig Koester's website on
Corinth
A virtual tour of Corinth
from the United Methodist Church
"Erastus
Inscription
EXEGETICAL GROUP: Thurs & Fri, March 27-28
1 Cor 11:17-34 (translation, grammar, variants)
"Net Bible" translation and
notes
LECTURE: Mon, March 31
1 Corinthians: Spirit & church; 2
Corinthians & Paul's understanding of ministry
Required Reading:
Witherington,
204-229
Elisabeth
Schüssler Fiorenza, "Neither Male Nor Female: Galatians 3:28--
Alternative Vision and Pauline Modification," in In Memory of Her,
205-241 (Library Reserve)
See the short internet articles on
"Paul
and Corinthian Women's Head Coverings" and
"Paul
and Corinthian Women's Hairstyles"
2 Corinthians, including the introductory material on 2 Corinthians in
The Harper Collins Study Bible (Library Reserve)
John Chow, "Patronage in Roman Corinth," in Paul and Empire, ed.
Richard A. Horsley, pp. 104-125 (Library Reserve).
See Dr. Craig Koester's website dealing with Ephesus
See the virtual tour of Ephesus
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, April 3-4
1Cor 11:17-34 (continued)
See the
suggested rhetorical outline for 1
Corinthians
See internet article on "The
Structure of Roman Houses" (and note especially the
information on the Triclinium). See also the
dining room from a house at Pompeii.
Compare
Paul's account with the Synoptic Gospels' accounts of the last supper.
Gorman, 65-73
Literary
context for final text due
LECTURE: Mon, April 7
Philemon: Paul and the structures of
society
Required Reading:
Philemon
See the
suggested rhetorical outline for Philemon
Witherington, 174-203
"Philemon, Letter to," in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters,
703-707
(Library Reference)
J. Albert Harrill, Slaves in the New Testament, 165-196 (Library Reserve)
Look at the website "Footsteps
of Paul" regarding Ephesus, and note the
gate dedicated to Augustus, and who gave it.
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, April 10-11
2 Corinthians 11:30-12:10 (Translation, grammar, variants)
"Net Bible" translation and
notes
LECTURE: Mon, April 14
Romans: Justification and the church of
Jews and Gentiles
Required Reading:
Romans
Witherington, 230-262
"Paul's Letter to the Christians in Rome," in Introducing the New
Testament:
Its Literature and Theology, pp. 299-326
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, April 17-18
2
Corinthians 11:30-12:10 (continued)
See the suggested rhetorical outlines for 2
Corinthians
See notes on the "hardship list" in the online exegetical example
Gorman, 123-140
LECTURE: Mon, April 21
Romans:
Israel and God's faithfulness
Required Reading:
Witherington, 278-303
Wright, 167-183
Eugene Boring, "The Language of Universal Salvation in Paul."
Journal of Biblical Literature 105 (1986): 269-292 (Library Reserve).
See
Dr. Craig Koester's website dealing with Rome
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, April 24-25
Romans 5:1-11 (Translation, grammar,
variants)
"Net Bible" translation and
notes
LECTURE: Mon, April 28
The Deutero-Pauline
Letters
Required
Reading:
Calvin Roetzel, The Letters of Paul. Conversations in Context, 133-160
(Library Reserve)
EXEGETICAL GROUPS: Thurs & Fri, May 1-2
Romans
5:1-11 (continued)
See the
suggested rhetorical outline for Romans
See the
parallels to this text in "Pauline Parallels." What do you notice?
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