The Pauline Letters
By David Oliver Smith & Robert M. PricePublisher Description
In The Pauline Letters: A Rhetorical Analysis, David Oliver Smith unveils his revolutionary discovery that the apostle Paul divided his letters into structured literary units as he wrote them. These literary units are based upon repeated words, phrases, and abstract concepts and are invariably patterned into chiastic, parallel, or hybrid structures. Using his technique of rhetorical analysis, Smith sets out each literary unit in the seven undisputed letters of Paul. After the structures of the literary units have been exposed, the units reveal interpolations that disrupt Paul's original structure. When the interpolations revealed by this technique are compared with interpolations heretofore proposed by Pauline scholars, there are some surprising results. Smith also uses his technique to analyze the Deutero-Pauline letters to determine whether any of those letters exhibit the same literary attributes as the undisputed letters.
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About David Oliver Smith
David Oliver Smith has a JD from Duke University and is a retired lawyer who began his study of the New Testament more than fifteen years ago. He is the author of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Paul: The Influence of the Epistles on the Synoptic Gospels (2011) and Unlocking the Puzzle: The Structure and Christology of the Original Gospel of Mark (2016).
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Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price is Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies at Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. He is a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar, author of The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? and Deconstructing Jesus, and editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism.
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