Diagnosing Deviance: Pathology and Polemic in the Pastoral Epistles (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament)

Diagnosing Deviance: Pathology and Polemic in the Pastoral Epistles (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament)

Author
Andrew M. Langford
Publisher
Mohr Siebrek Ek
Language
English
Year
2023
Page
572
ISBN
9783161616945,9783161619724,3161616944
File Type
pdf
File Size
4.6 MiB

In this study, Andrew M. Langford demonstrates that the single, post-Pauline author of the Pastoral Epistles ("the Pastor") crafts a stigmatizing depiction of his theological opponents by spatializing, demonizing, and pathologizing their alleged deviance. Through close comparative readings of ancient medical and philosophical literature, the author argues for the necessity of interpreting the Pastor's pathologizing of deviance in light of ancient disease etiologies and models of corporeality. With this book, the author contributes to recent interpretive insights about the function of authorial fiction in antiquity and demonstrates that the Pastor is self-consciously appropriating the Pauline epistolary to craft his approach to his theological opponents.

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