The Continuing Problem of Particularity and Universality within the corpus Paulinum Chrysostom on Romans 16:3

This paper takes up the interplay between the "particularity" and "universality" of the Pauline letters, which was so influentially identified by Nils A. Dahl, and demonstrates that even after the canon had provided a implicitly universalizing hermeneutic for the corpus Paulinum,...

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Published in:	Studia theologica Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 121 - 137
Main Author:	Mitchell, Margaret M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oslo Taylor & Francis Group 01-12-2010 Scandinavian University Press
Subjects:	Epistles Exegesis and biblical criticism History and sciences of religions New Testament Romans Romerbrevet St Paul Epistle to the Romans Pauline theology John Chrysostom New Testament Bible
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Summary:	This paper takes up the interplay between the "particularity" and "universality" of the Pauline letters, which was so influentially identified by Nils A. Dahl, and demonstrates that even after the canon had provided a implicitly universalizing hermeneutic for the corpus Paulinum, a late antique preacher such as John Chrysostom still felt the need to explain why the letters contain material of such an apparently situation-specific nature. Through a close reading of an untranslated homily on Romans 16:3 ("Greet Priscilla and Aquila"), we shall demonstrate how this rhetorically astute interpreter fashioned his homily precisely around this dynamic - in order to prove to his skeptical audience that it is in the particular that the universal is to be found.
Bibliography:	Vol. 64, no. 2 (2010)
ISSN:	0039-338X 1502-7791
DOI:	10.1080/0039338X.2010.523217