Re-membering the New Covenant at Corinth

A Different Perspective on 2 Corinthians 3

by Emmanuel Nathan

Book cover: Re-membering the New Covenant at Corinth

Extent: 221 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe

Series volume number: 514

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2020)

ISBN: 9783161576874

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $118.00

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Emmanuel Nathan’s study is driven by the hermeneutical question of whether the covenantal contrasts in 2 Cor 3, in which Paul’s use of ‘new covenant’ in 2 Cor 3:6 is set in stark polemical antithesis to an ‘old covenant’ (2 Cor 3:14), lie at the origin of the later Christian self-understanding as members of a new covenant that replaced the old. In other words, can Paul be said to be the founder of formative ‘Christianity’, even if one nuances the term ‘Christianity’ as a sect within the Judaisms of Paul’s time? Using social memory theory, the author reframes the larger question of Paul’s continuity or discontinuity with Judaism and seeks instead to examine the ways in which Paul refracted, redeployed, and reconfigured existing traditions in service of local needs, among them the formation and transformation of character among his community at Corinth.

  • By (author) Emmanuel Nathan