Campus: Box Hill
Mode: Blended
Delivery Notes:

Monday 6:00pm

  • Week 1: Introductory considerations: dating, literary integrity, structure, the history of Paul's dealings with the Corinthians. Reading: “Paul the Letter writer” in Witherington, Ben. New Testament Rhetoric p. 104-120
  • Week 2: 1 Cor 1-4 Division within the community. Reading: Gorman, Michael, * Apostle of the Crucified Lord, Paul’s Theology*, 131 -145
  • Week 3: 1 Cor 5-6: Immorality and litigation within the community. Reading: “Order and Purity in Paul’s Symbolic Universe ,” p. 21-55 Perceiving the human body,” p. 116-131’ in Jerome Neyrey, *Paul in Other Words
  • Week 4: 1 Cor 7: The status of marriage in the light of the eschaton. Reading: A.A. Rupprecht “Slave, slavery,” in Dictionary of Paul and his Letters p. 881-883
  • Week 5: 1 Cor 8-10: Food sacrificed to idols and the meaning of Christian freedom. Reading: B.B. Blue “Food Offered to Idols and Jewish Food Laws” in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters p. 306-310
  • Week 6: 1 Cor 11-14: Spiritual gifts, over inflated egos and the true nature of the community as Christ’s body. Reading: Nancy A. Carter,” Paul and Corinthian Women’s Head Coverings, “Five Myths About Corinthian Headwear,” Ben Witherington, “A Closer Look: Prophecy and Glossolalia in Corinth,’ p. 276-281
  • Week 7: 1 Cor 15: The Resurrection and the mistaken view that some have already attained it. 1 Cor 16: Conclusion of the Letter
  • Week 8: 2 Cor 1-2 Paul attempts to deal with misunderstanding and the wounds caused by his previous letter. 2 Cor 3-7 Paul’s reflection on the nature of his ministry as apostle
  • Week 9: 2 Cor 3-7 ( continued )
  • Week 10: 2 Cor 8-9 Paul appeals for the poor of the church of Jerusalem
  • Week 11: 2 Cor 10-12: Paul defends his ministry against “false apostles.” Reading: Glancy, Jennifer A “ Boasting of Beatings (2 Corinthians 11:23-25 ) JBL 123/1 (2004) p. 99-135
  • Week 12: 2 Cor 10-12 ( continued )
Contact hours 36
Total time commitment 150
Start date 29 Jul, 2024
Census date: 20 Aug, 2024
End date: 15 Nov, 2024
Academic staff: Rev Dr Chris Monaghan
Textbook(s): No textbook is required for this unit.

Unit code: BN2010Y

Unit status: Approved (Major revision)

Points: 18.0

Unit level: Undergraduate Level 2

Unit discipline: New Testament

Delivery Mode: Face to Face

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