Description: Is Second Corinthians, one of Paul's most personal and passionate letters, better understood as a text or a performance? Using an audience-oriented method, Timothy Milinovich examines the letter as orally performed correspondence, from the view of the authorial (i.e., intended or ideal) audience. What results is an original structural analysis of 2 Corinthians 1:1--6:2, denoting twenty chiastic units and three larger macrochiastic arguments. This arrangement is intended to show what the authorial audience heard, offering a new way of understanding how Paul's letter would have...
Description: Is Second Corinthians, one of Paul's most personal and passionate letters, better understood as a text or a performance? Using an audienc...
About the Contributor(s): Timothy Milinovich is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Pastoral Institute at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Now Is the Day of Salvation (2010).
About the Contributor(s): Timothy Milinovich is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Pastoral Institute at the Universit...
