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Ausgabe:

Januar/2014

Spalte:

73–74

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Heiser, Andreas

Titel/Untertitel:

Die Paulusinszenierung des Johannes Chrysostomus. Epitheta und ihre Vorgeschichte.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2012. XVI, 731 S. = Studien und Texte zu Antike und Chris­tentum, 70. Kart. EUR 124,00. ISBN 978-3-16-150521-8.

Rezensent:

Wendy Mayer

The confluence of growing interest by New Testament scholars in the reception of Paul and his writings by the Church Fathers, on the one hand, and, after almost a century, of a renewed focus by those who study the Pauline enthusiast, John Chrysostom (fl. 380–407 CE), on the latter’s reception and transformation of Hellenistic rhetoric and philosophy, on the other, has given birth in recent years to the occasional monumental study. Margaret Mitchell’s The Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation (Tübingen 2000) is one. Andreas Heiser’s thesis that Chrysos­tom (C) »stages« the apostle Paul via epithets is another. The two works are complementary. H. builds on, nuances, and expands Mitchell’s thesis about the centrality to C’s hermeneutic ...


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