"A powerful, biblically based model of leadership development based on the life of the Apostle Paul All churches, denominations, and parachurch organizations are eager for new models of leadership development. Cole uses the life and leadership lessons of the Apostle Paul to show…
Marriage and the body of Christ -- Neither male nor female -- Paul in Ephesus: self and sexual difference in the Comedy of Errors -- Portia's Pauline perversion: the Merchant of Venice and Romans 1 -- The works of the flesh -- Chaste impossibilities: adultery and individuation i…
"St. Paul was a pivotal and controversial figure in the fledgling Jesus-movement of the first-century. The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul provides an invaluable entryway into the study of Paul and his letters. Composed of sixteen essays by an international team of scholars,…
Gewalt wird in weiten Teilen der Welt verurteilt, und doch ist sie omnipräsent. Männer und Frauen sind besonders als Teil einer Gruppe oder Menschenmenge dazu bereit, Gewalt auszuüben, die sie zuvor als illegitim und unvereinbar mit ihrem Selbstverständnis wahrgenommen haben. Wä…
This dissertation argues that the Tenth Commandment plays a formative role in Paul’s ethical instruction in the following ways: (1) Paul describes and defines sin using the Tenth Commandment (Rom 7:7; 1 Cor 10:6); (2) he connects covetousness and idolatry (1 Cor 10:6–7; Eph 5:5;…
The Latin American Church has yet to reach its full potential as a center for church planting and missionary sending initiatives. Latin America’s current lack of significant missionary sending efforts coupled with the fact that it is considered a “reached” part of the world has …
This study argues that the phrase “righteousness of God” in Rom 1:17 should be understood as a reference to a particular OT concept of God’s righteousness. It engages this widely discussed question by means of an intertextual-communicative approach that is open to the possibilit…
The interpretation of Paul’s command to imitate him in the New Testament has been widely and variously understood. This work uses close attention to the Hellenistic Jewish context of imitation in Paul’s world and the Latin and Greek epigraphic evidence to demonstrate that imitat…
One of the most lively and enduring debates in New Testament studies is the question of the significance of ‘apocalyptic' thought in Paul. This has recently given birth to a group of scholars, with a common theological genealogy, who share a concern to emphasise the ‘apocalyptic…
Paul's citation of an early baptismal tradition in Gal 3:28, 1 Cor 12:13 and Col 3:11 is as notable for its prominence in the Pauline corpus as it is for its ambiguity. A survey of the variety of views as to what Paul is denying and, conversely, affirming by this formula highlig…
The present study examines Paul's use of Isaiah in Rom 11:25–27 and seeks to determine how the apostle's treatment of Scripture in that passage informs his argument in Romans 9–11. Some recent studies have focused on the interpretive role of mystery in specific Pauline texts inv…
Employing an architectural metaphor inspired by C. H. Dodd and utilizing methodology that draws from Richard B. Hays and Francis Watson, this dissertation presents a primary proposal and secondary sketch. The primary proposal is that both constitutively and rhetorically (through…
This dissertation is a linguistic and rhetorical-theological examination of Paul's language of zelos. I examine comparative literary and epigraphical evidence concerning imitation and jealousy/zeal in antiquity (primarily Greek, but also Hebrew and Latin sources). I consider the…
Chapter 1 introduces the need for an updated study on the inheritance in the Pauline epistles, examines the history of research on this topic, and states the thesis of this dissertation. Then it explains the method that will be employed to examine the relevant inheritance texts …
The Pauline corpus comprises a large percentage of the New Testament. These epistles contain some of the richest doctrinal teaching found in the Bible. One of the doctrines explained in Paul's writings is the doctrine of God's punitive retribution. God's retribution stems from H…