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Seesengood, Robert Paul.

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Running with endurance: Nascent Christian use of athletic metaphors (Saint Paul).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Running with endurance: Nascent Christian use of athletic metaphors (Saint Paul)./
Author:	Seesengood, Robert Paul.
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0560.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Religion, Biblical Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3123965

Running with endurance: Nascent Christian use of athletic metaphors (Saint Paul).
Seesengood, Robert Paul.

Running with endurance: Nascent Christian use of athletic metaphors (Saint Paul). - 200 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0560.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drew University, 2004.

This work explores the use of athletic (agonistic) metaphors in the extant literature of the earliest Christian communities, particularly exploring athletic metaphors that appear in the writings associated with Paul (both in the undisputed letters such as Corinthians and Philippians as well as the Pastoral Epistles and Ephesians), the anonymous letter to the Hebrews, the Apocalypse of John and the early Christian martyrologies (The Letter of the Churches of Lyons and Vienne and The Passion of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas). All of these texts also exhibit autobiographical voice and address questions of persecution and suffering resulting from faithful community activity and witness and imposed by the Colonial domination of Rome. Assuming a cultural context of the Early Roman Empire that stressed a malleabile yet fragile sense of self (as articulated by both Michel Foucault and Peter Brown), this dissertation explores how these nascent Christian texts use the metaphor/language of traditional athletics (running, boxing, and wrestling as utilized, for example, in 1 Cor. 9. Phil. 3 and Heb. 12) and gladiatorial combat (found, I argue, in the Pastorals and the Apocalypse and later martyrologies) in their rhetoric of Subjectivity, articulating both a refashioned sense of the individual and describing/defining proper community boundaries. Arising from an "agonistic" context of colonial oppression, these nascent Christian texts fashion a new, hybridized sense of "self" using metaphors that are, themselves, competitive.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020189
Religion, Biblical Studies.

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520 $a Using methods of modern cultural criticism (postcolonialism in general and Homi Bhabha's "hybridity" in particular), literary analysis (both philology and rhetorical analysis) and cultural history, this dissertation offers methodological update and expanded scope to the previous standard study by Victor Pfitzner (Paul and the Agon Motif). Further, the individual chapters also address (where relevant) contemporary scholarly debates on the ethnicity of Paul, the authorship of the disputed Paulines, the structure of the Apocalypse and the reception history of the early martyrologies. Finally, this study utilizes autobiographical literary criticism to explore the inter-textuality between ancient text and modern reader.
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