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2020 Catholic Press Association honorable mention award for gender issues, inclusion in the church When 2 Corinthians is read as a whole in the early manuscripts, we hear a distraught and defensive Paul, struggling to recover the respect of the Corinthians that he assumed in 1 Corinthians. Scholars have supplied a recent visit gone awry to explain this, but Wire argues that the Corinthians have not kept the restrictions Paul laid down in his earlier letter. It is Paul who has changed. No longer able to demand that they imitate his weakness as he embodies Jesus’ death, he concedes and even celebrates that they embody Jesus’ power and life and thereby demonstrate the effectiveness of his work among them. With special attention to the women in Corinth who pray and prophesy, Wire looks at each part of 2 Corinthians through three feminist lenses: a broad focus on all bodies within the tensions of the ecosystem as Paul sees it; a mid-range focus on the social, political, and economic setting; and a precise focus on his argument as evidence of an interaction between Paul and the Corinthians. When Paul ends with “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the partnership of the Holy Spirit,” the Corinthians have pressed him to reshape his message from “yes but” and “no” to “yes,” from a tenacity of qualifiers and subordinations to an overflow of encouragements.
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Author: Antoinette Clark Wire , Barbara E. Reid , Mary Ann Beavis
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Imprint: Liturgical Press
Volume: 48
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Width: 15.20cm
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, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.737kg
ISBN: 9780814681725
ISBN 10: 0814681727
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 19 July 2019
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Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Contributors x Foreword: “Come Eat of My Bread . . . and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom” Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: “She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25) Barbara E. Reid, OP Author’s Introduction: “Who Is Adequate for These Things?” (2 Cor 2:16) A Feminist Commentary? One Letter or Many? Where Are the Women in 2 Corinthians? What Can 2 Corinthians Mean Today? Who Is Writing to Whom, When, and Where? l 2 Corinthians 1:1-11 Paul Greets Corinth and Blesses God A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s Opening Greeting and Blessing The Broad View of All Bodies in Time and Space, Death and Life A Mid-Range Focus on the Political, Economic, and Social Context A Close-Up Focus on the Interaction of Paul and the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 1:12–2:11 Paul Explains His Long Absence A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s Defense of His Past Actions A Broad Focus on All Bodies in Space and Time, Flesh and Spirit A Mid-Range Focus on Social, Political, and Geographical Aspects of Paul’s Defense A Sharp Focus on the Interaction of Paul and the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 2:12–3:3 Paul Begins His Defense A Feminist Lens at Three Different Ranges Paul’s Persuasion within an Ecosystem of Time and Space, Life and Death A Mid-Range Focus on the Social and Political World of Paul’s Persuasion A Close-Up View of Paul’s Persuasion as Shaped by and Shaping the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 3:4-18 Transformed in God’s Glory as Was Moses A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Being Transformed in God’s Glory An Ecosystem of Life and Death, Glory and Obscurity, Time and Space The More Specific Social, Political, and Religious Context Focusing on Paul’s Interchange with the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 4:1-15 A Light out of Darkness, a Treasure in Clay A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on a Treasure in Clay and a Light in Darkness A Broad Focus on All Bodies in the Tension between Light and Dark, Life and Death A Mid-Range Focus on the Social, Political, and Economic Setting A Sharp Focus on the Interaction between Paul and the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 4:16–5:10 At Home in the Body and/or at Home with the Lord A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s Interpretation of Life and Death Broad Focus on the Ecosystem Presupposed in What Is Seen and Unseen, in Death and Life A Mid-Range Focus on the Political, Social, and Economic Setting Focusing in on the Interaction of Paul and the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 A New Creation in Christ That Is Reconciliation A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Reconciling with God as a New Creation A Broad View of All Bodies Caught between Death and Life, Old and New A Mid-Range Focus on the Social, Political, and Economic Setting of Paul’s Argument A Close-up of Paul’s Interaction with the Corinthians, Especially the Women 2 Corinthians 6:1–7:4 Paul’s All-Out Appeal: Open Wide Your Hearts A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s All-Out Appeal to the Corinthians The Ecosystem Paul Presupposes of Trust and Distrust, Wide and Narrow The More Specific Focus on Paul’s Social, Political, and Economic Setting The Focus Sharpened onto This Interaction between Paul and the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 7:5-16 Titus’s Report and Paul’s Joy A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s Joy at Titus’s Report With a Broad Focus on All Reality in the Tension between Grief and Joy With Focus on the Social, Political, and Economic Context With Focus Narrowed to This Interaction of Paul and the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 8:1–9:15 A Culminating Appeal for the Jerusalem Poor A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s Appeal for the Jerusalem Collection The Ecosystem Assumed in Paul’s Collection Appeal The Social, Political, and Economic Contexts of Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem The Interaction of Paul and the Corinthians as Seen in His Collection Appeal 2 Corinthians 10:1–11:21a Paul’s Rebuttal of His Rivals’ Charges A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s Rebuttal to His Rivals’ Charges The Broad Ecosystem or Worldview Underlying Paul’s Rebuttal of Rivals The Social, Political, and Economic Context of Paul’s Rebuttal This Specific Interaction between Paul and the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 11:21b–12:13 Paul’s Defense of Himself as a Fool A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s Speech as a Fool The Political, Economic and Social Setting of Paul’s Speaking as a Fool The Broad Ecosystem or Cosmology That Paul Assumes in Speaking as a Fool Focusing in on the Interchange of the Corinthians and Paul Speaking as a Fool 2 Corinthians 12:14–13:13 Paul’s Plan to Come to Corinth A Feminist Lens at Three Ranges on Paul’s Preparing Corinth for His Arrival With Broad Focus on the Ecosystem, Worldview, or Theology That Paul Assumes On the Midrange Political, Social, and Economic Context Focusing on the Interaction between Paul and the Corinthians Afterword Works Cited Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings Index of Subjects
Reviews
From its style and register, the commentary is well suited for an academic/homiletical audience, being able to hold its own against other commentaries of this sort, not least because it addresses itself to a particular set of standpoints and social outcomes. Wire is extremely competent. I will use this volume next time I teach on 2 Corinthians. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Wire, after reviewing the case for 2 Corinthians a s a fusion of several letters, reads it instead as a single letter of Paul. She demonstrates the capacity of a feminist approach to offer fresh insight into Paul's perspective. The Bible Today In Wire's analysis, what most concerns Paul is whether the Corinthian assembly, where evidently he is marginal `among a swirl of leading voices,' `can recognize Paul's beleaguered work as valid if he recognizes `the spirit of the living God' in them.' Maybe Paul should have found this a simple challenge. He didn't, and this new work, from one of the most innovative interpreters of Paul in her generation, lays out the contexts-philosophical, political, social, scriptural, and personal-and interactions that explain Paul's involved, ambivalent defense. A work in active dialogue with many facets of scholarship, church, and women's experience, its concise reasoning invites a close reading that paradoxically impels the reader forward in excitement. Robert B. Coote, Senior Research Professor of Hebrew Exegesis and Old Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary Wire offers a fresh interpretation of Second Corinthians from a historically informed and rhetorically sophisticated feminist perspective. In continuation of the brilliant and influential work she has done in her previous book on First Corinthians, The Corinthian Women Prophets, Wire provides here a careful analysis on Paul's use of rhetoric in Second Corinthians to see what the new epistolary exigency is like behind Second Corinthians, especially, concerning the women in the Corinthian church and to understand how Paul responds to it. The result is a coherent narrative of Paul's message in Second Corinthians that is properly situated against the immediate and particular epistolary situation in the Corinthian church as well as the larger sociocultural and political background of the gender dynamic in the first-century Roman imperial world. Eugene Eung-Chun Park, Dana and David Dornsife Professor of New Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary
Wire, after reviewing the case for 2 Corinthians a s a fusion of several letters, reads it instead as a single letter of Paul. She demonstrates the capacity of a feminist approach to offer fresh insight into Paul's perspective. The Bible Today In Wire's analysis, what most concerns Paul is whether the Corinthian assembly, where evidently he is marginal `among a swirl of leading voices,' `can recognize Paul's beleaguered work as valid if he recognizes `the spirit of the living God' in them.' Maybe Paul should have found this a simple challenge. He didn't, and this new work, from one of the most innovative interpreters of Paul in her generation, lays out the contexts-philosophical, political, social, scriptural, and personal-and interactions that explain Paul's involved, ambivalent defense. A work in active dialogue with many facets of scholarship, church, and women's experience, its concise reasoning invites a close reading that paradoxically impels the reader forward in excitement. Robert B. Coote, Senior Research Professor of Hebrew Exegesis and Old Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary Wire offers a fresh interpretation of Second Corinthians from a historically informed and rhetorically sophisticated feminist perspective. In continuation of the brilliant and influential work she has done in her previous book on First Corinthians, The Corinthian Women Prophets, Wire provides here a careful analysis on Paul's use of rhetoric in Second Corinthians to see what the new epistolary exigency is like behind Second Corinthians, especially, concerning the women in the Corinthian church and to understand how Paul responds to it. The result is a coherent narrative of Paul's message in Second Corinthians that is properly situated against the immediate and particular epistolary situation in the Corinthian church as well as the larger sociocultural and political background of the gender dynamic in the first-century Roman imperial world. Eugene Eung-Chun Park, Dana and David Dornsife Professor of New Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary
Wire offers a fresh interpretation of Second Corinthians from a historically informed and rhetorically sophisticated feminist perspective. In continuation of the brilliant and influential work she has done in her previous book on First Corinthians, The Corinthian Women Prophets, Wire provides here a careful analysis on Paul's use of rhetoric in Second Corinthians to see what the new epistolary exigency is like behind Second Corinthians, especially, concerning the women in the Corinthian church and to understand how Paul responds to it. The result is a coherent narrative of Paul's message in Second Corinthians that is properly situated against the immediate and particular epistolary situation in the Corinthian church as well as the larger sociocultural and political background of the gender dynamic in the first-century Roman imperial world. Eugene Eung-Chun Park, Dana and David Dornsife Professor of New Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary In Wire's analysis, what most concerns Paul is whether the Corinthian assembly, where evidently he is marginal `among a swirl of leading voices,' `can recognize Paul's beleaguered work as valid if he recognizes `the spirit of the living God' in them.' Maybe Paul should have found this a simple challenge. He didn't, and this new work, from one of the most innovative interpreters of Paul in her generation, lays out the contexts-philosophical, political, social, scriptural, and personal-and interactions that explain Paul's involved, ambivalent defense. A work in active dialogue with many facets of scholarship, church, and women's experience, its concise reasoning invites a close reading that paradoxically impels the reader forward in excitement. Robert B. Coote, Senior Research Professor of Hebrew Exegesis and Old Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary Wire, after reviewing the case for 2 Corinthians a s a fusion of several letters, reads it instead as a single letter of Paul. She demonstrates the capacity of a feminist approach to offer fresh insight into Paul's perspective. The Bible Today From its style and register, the commentary is well suited for an academic/homiletical audience, being able to hold its own against other commentaries of this sort, not least because it addresses itself to a particular set of standpoints and social outcomes. Wire is extremely competent. I will use this volume next time I teach on 2 Corinthians. Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Wire offers a fresh interpretation of Second Corinthians from a historically informed and rhetorically sophisticated feminist perspective. In continuation of the brilliant and influential work she has done in her previous book on First Corinthians, The Corinthian Women Prophets, Wire provides here a careful analysis on Paul's use of rhetoric in Second Corinthians to see what the new epistolary exigency is like behind Second Corinthians, especially, concerning the women in the Corinthian church and to understand how Paul responds to it. The result is a coherent narrative of Paul's message in Second Corinthians that is properly situated against the immediate and particular epistolary situation in the Corinthian church as well as the larger sociocultural and political background of the gender dynamic in the first-century Roman imperial world. Eugene Eung-Chun Park, Dana and David Dornsife Professor of New Testament, San Francisco Theological Seminary
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Antoinette Clark Wire is Robert S. Dollar Professor Emerita of New Testament Studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union where she has taught since 1973. Dr. Wire is a graduate of Yale Divinity and Claremont Graduate School. Raised in China by missionary parents, she has lived her adult life largely in California. Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015. Mary Ann Beavis is professor emerita of religion and culture at St. Thomas More College (Saskatoon, Canada). She received MA degrees from the University of Manitoba and the University of Notre Dame; she holds a PhD from Cambridge University (UK). Her areas of interest and expertise include Christian origins, feminist biblical interpretation, Christianity and Goddess spirituality, and religion and popular culture. She is the author of several single-author and edited books as well as many peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews.
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