Pauline Communities as ‘Scholastic Communities’

A Study of the Vocabulary of 'Teaching' in 1 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus

by Claire S. Smith

Book cover: Pauline Communities as ‘Scholastic Communities’

Extent: 555 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe

Series volume number: 335

Language: English

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(November 2012)

ISBN: 9783161519635

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Edwin Judge’s description of early Christian communities as ‘scholastic communities’ provides the starting point of a search for a sociological description of the Christian communities portrayed in 1 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus. An original methodology uses a multi-layered exegetical approach to study every occurrence of the vocabulary of ‘teaching’ in the letters. The focus is on the activity of teaching (e.g., participants, method, manner, purpose, result, etc). The vocabulary represents ten semantic groupings, which shed further light on the place and practice of education in the communities ( core-teaching , speaking , traditioning , announcing , revealing , worshipping , commanding , correcting , remembering / imitation , and false teaching ). Claire S. Smith supports and develops Judge’s 1960 description, advancing on it by showing that the communities are better described as ‘learning communities’ with horizontal (human-human) and vertical (divine-human) dimensions.

By (author) Claire S Smith

"...Smith has given us a rich, lucid, and interesting study... [...] ...this study will be of value to those interested in the Pauline communities, early Christian meetings and practice, learning and teaching, early Christian ethics and community life, and much more." -- Steve Walton, Review of Biblical Literature
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