An End to Enmity: Paul and the "Wrongdoer" of Second Corinthians

599 Pages·2011·3.076 MB·English

by  L. L. Welborn

L. L.Welborn
An End to Enmity
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An End to Enmity
Paul and the “Wrongdoer” of Second Corinthians
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An End to Enmity:
Paul and the ‘Wrongdoer’ of Second Corinthians
L. L. Welborn
In
Honorem
Edwin A. Judge
Contents
Acknowledgements ..................................... IX
Abbreviations .......................................... XIII
Preface ............................................... XIX
Chapter One: Introduction ............................... 1
Chapter Two: History of Scholarship ....................... 3
Chapter Three: Inferences from Exegesis .................... 23
Chapter Four: Social and Rhetorical Conventions ............. 212
Chapter Five: Prosopography ............................. 289
Chapter Six: History of a Friendship ....................... 382
Bibliography .......................................... 485
Index of Ancient Sources ................................ 529
Index of Modern Authors ................................ 559

Acknowledgements
It is a joy to be able to thank all those whose insight, criticism, and gen-
erous support have contributed to this book. At the top of the list is the
person to whom the book is dedicated: Edwin Judge. In the spring of
2006,IwasinvitedtopresentlecturesastheVisitingFellowattheannual
conferenceof theSocietyfortheStudyof EarlyChristianityatMacquarie
University.TheknowledgethatEdwinJudgewouldbemyrespondenton
this occasion lent a special intensity to the preparation of lectures in
whichIsoughttobuildupontheinsightsof EdwinJudgeandhisstudent
Peter Marshall into the social and rhetorical conventions that governed
friendship, enmity, and reconciliation in the Greco-Roman world. My
anxiety at facing Edwin Judge as respondent proved to be as fruitful as
it was unfounded. On the long flight back from Sydney, Australia, to
Dayton, Ohio, I found myself perusing a manuscript of 120 pages and
assumed (wrongly, as it turned out) that I would soon be able to trans-
form the manuscript into a little book on the episode of Paul’s conflict
with the “wrongdoer” of 2 Corinthians. Over the past four years,
Edwin Judge has become the most significant influence upon my devel-
opment as a historian of early Christianity, generously devoting hours to
discussion of the questions that animate my research. I now owe Edwin
Judgeasmuch gratitudeasIfeel towardsmyoldmentor ArnaldoMomi-
gliano, who first taught me how knowledge of Greco-Roman historycan
be made useful for the study of the New Testament.
Readers of this book will surely discern that its origin, and hence my
indebtedness, lies farther back than the spring of 2006. I first encoun-
tered the enigma of the !dij¶sar when serving as a research assistant
for Hans Dieter Betz in the preparation of his Hermeneia commentary
on 2 Corinthians 8 and 9. In composing the footnotes for the present
book, I was pleased to be reminded that Hans Dieter Betz had already
proposed the most plausible solution to the problem of the nature of
theoffenseofthe!dij¶saragainstPaul.WhileastudentattheUniversity
ofChicago,IalsoprofitedfromseveralconversationswithDavidEpstein,
then assistant to President Hannah Gray, about personal enmity in
Roman politics.