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This dissertation is intended to reveal how Paul expresses God's salvific activity by using the concept of power as a soteriological framework of his gospel message. This study shows that Paul manifests the gospel as God's saving power that liberates humanity from the bondage of…

This dissertation explores the role of extraordinary religious experience in Pauline Christianity through a study of Paul's claim to have been snatched into the third heaven and Paradise only to suffer later from a "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:1-10). Many previous inte…

Summary of the Thesis In previous studies of reward in Pauline thought several specific aspects of Paul's main passage on reward as related to the Christian's work and judgment (I Cor. 3:10-17) have not received adequate attention. Chapter I sets these forth in detail, and the t…

My dissertation is concerned with the types of people that produced and consumed early writings about Jesus, specifically the Gospel of Thomas and 1 Corinthians. I argue that literary forms and features within both texts demonstrate contact with and influence from Graeco-Roman e…