Overview

A New Temple for Corinth examines the role that St. Paul's image of the community as a temple plays in his overall rhetorical argument in 1 Corinthians. It challenges traditional notions that Paul is inviting his correspondents to understand themselves as a new temple replacing the one in Jerusalem. Rather, Paul uses a cultic metaphor that both Gentile and Jew could understand to introduce his central motif of community upbuilding for the sake of the common good. This examination of first-century Corinthian archaeology suggests methods to correct and complement previous literary and historical critical analyses of the Pauline corpus.

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Dr. Lanci has integrated an impressive amount of literary, historical, and archaeological data about Roman Corinth into a cogent explication of a central metaphor in 1 Corinthians, that of the Christian community as a temple. In the process he also provides a lucid interpretation of the letter as a whole, as well as a model of New Testament scholarship. (Michael D. Coogan, Coeditor, 'The Oxford Companion to the Bible') Dr. Lanci's study skillfully combines detailed textual analysis with a fresh examination of the Roman Corinthian archaeological record. The result is a compelling and readable new interpretation of biblical imagery. (Kimberley C. Patton, Assistant Professor of Comparative and Historical Study of Religion, Harvard University, The Divinity School)

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The Author: John R. Lanci is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame and received his Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. In addition to his work in Pauline studies and archaeology, he has conducted numerous retreats and workshops on reading the Bible with an eye to issues of social justice.

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