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Letters to the Corinthians
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 14, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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ekklesiai, Jerusalem, resurrection, money, exordium, leader, conjoles, one, weakness, deliberative, pastiche, Apollos, Ephesos, interaction, spiritual
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1 Corinthians
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background
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written in 52 or 54
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written from                (modern day Turkey, across the Aegean Sea from Athens)
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not his first letter to them
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we know that the Corinthians wrote to Paul
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he writes e.g. "now concerning idol food" or "now concerning                    gifts" indicating tha the is responding to topics they had mentioned in their leters
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this letter is part of a long                        with this community
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1 Corinthians 1:10 is the theme of the letter
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the rhetoric of the letter is                          discourse
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                 the community towards future action
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structure
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1:1-3 prescript
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1:4-9                  of thanksgiving
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1:10-17 narratio (proposition)
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1:18-15:57 body of letter
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15:58-16:24 conclusions
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themes
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sexual behavior
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what you should eat
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whether they should engage in prophecy or speaking in tongues
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                         of the body
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the middle of the Pauline correspondence
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we don't have to assume that the                    to which Paul wrote did not have the same opinions
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we don't have the letters from the assemblies to Paul
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what role did Paul have at Corinth
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what support or opposition did he receive there
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with the Corinthian correspondence, we have more than        letter
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Paul knew this community well and it was reflected in his writing
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talks about having baptized only Crispus and Gaius
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Paul was not the only religious              in this community
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says that those in Corinth say that "I belong to Paul" or "I belong to               " or "I belong to Cephas" or "I belong to Christ" indicating that community members thought of themselves as having been initiated by different leaders
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"I myself planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth"
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2 Corinthians
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by the time this letter was written, tensions had built
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                 of letters written over time and edited together later
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most straightforward letters are 2 Corinthians 8-9
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administrative letters
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about poverty
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giving money for the saints
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cajoling the Corinthians and others in the region to give           
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in 16 Paul talks about "carrying your gift to                   " which refers to giving money for the poor and saints in Jerusalem
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2 Corinthians 10-13
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may be what was referred to as "the letter of suffering, anguish, and tears"
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10:10 mentions that Paul's "personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible" but that "his letters are weighty and strong"
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Paul argues that he glorifies God in his                 , not in his strength
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refuses to accept the Corinthians' money
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a defense letter
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that Paul is up to being an apostle

Vocabulary:

pastiche, n. [pass-TEESH] an incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge, especially a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, or a work that quotes other works ⇒ "Second Corinthians is probably a pastiche of letters written over time and edited together later."
cajole, v. [ka-JOHL] to persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, often by flattery, to coax ⇒ "The letters of 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 are about poverty, about others giving money for the saints, about cajoling the Corinthians and others in the region to give money."
apologia, n. [ap-ah-LOH-gee-ah] a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly ⇒ "We find in 2 Corinthians an apologia where Paul says that he's actually up to being an apostle and gives the image of himself in a triumphal procession."
exordium, n. the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration ⇒ "Verses 1:4-9 of 1 Corinthians is an exordium of thanksgiving."
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