1 Clement as an Argumentative Text / edited by David S. Du Toit, Jacob N. Cerone, Kathrin Hager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cerone, Jacob N., editor.

Hager, Kathrin, editor.

Du Toit, David S., editor.

Series:

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Novum Testamentum, Supplements ; 196.

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Novum Testamentum, Supplements ; 196

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Biblical studies.

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650).

Religious Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the significance of 1 Clement as an argumentative text – a text that substantiates and offers reasons for a specific course of action which readers of the work should take. The contributions to this volume analyze the various argumentative strategies the author of 1 Clement employs in service of the letter's overall aims. Some essays focus on the cultural knowledge underlying the argumentation, while others on the function and use of Scripture. Several essays offer insights from other disciplines – theories of argumentation, metaphor, and (literary and cultural) space, as well as historical anthropology – to facilitate the analysis of 1 Clement's argument. The final two essays investigate the way the argumentative structure of 1 Clement was interpreted and used in two very different contexts of reception.

Contents:

Notes on Contributors

1 First Clement as an Argumentative Text: Introduction

David du Toit

2 Res publica restituta as the Premise of the Argument of 1 Clement

L.L. Welborn

3 The Rhetoric of Slavery and the Argument for Concord in 1 Clement

Jeremiah Bailey

4 The Argumentative Function of the Gift: God’s Benefactions in 1 Clement 19:2–21:1

Kathrin Hager

5 Vindication and Admonition: The Argumentative Function of Wisdom 2:24 in 1 Clement 3–6

Jacob N. Cerone

6 The Narrative on Cain’s Fratricide (Genesis 4:3–8 LXX ) in 1 Clement 3:4–4:7 and Its Aetiological Function in the Argument

Cilliers Breytenbach

7 The Role (and Absence) of Genesis 1–4 in the Argument of 1 Clement

David J. Downs

8 A Grapevine’s Lesson for Imbeciles: “Miserable Are Those Who Waffle and Waver!”

Argumentation in 1 Clement 23, 2 Clement 11, and Their Common Source

James A. Kelhoffer

9 Obedience to God in 1 Clement 13–14: The Spirit’s Commandment and the Lord’s Precepts as “Holy Words” to Be Obeyed

Paul A. Hartog

10 Argumentation in 1 Clement: A Consensualist Reading

Tanja Forderer

11 Metaphorical Argumentation in 1 Clement: The Life Journey and Competition Metaphors

Jonathan Reichel

12 Contested Space and Dangerous Places: Literary Space and Argumentation in 1 Clement

13 A Spatio-Rhetorical Examination of the Persuasive Strategies of 1 Clement

Harry O. Maier

14 With “Heart” and “Soul”: On Moral Anthropology and Its Argumentative Use in 1 Clement

Hermut Löhr

15 Out of Order: Reading the Argument of 1 Clement in the Sequence of the Liturgical Cycle of Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1700

Dan Batovici

16 The Interpretation of Argumentative Structures in 1 Clement in Its Early Modern Editions and Translations

Patrick Bahl

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004742062

OCLC:

1540325925

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004742062 DOI