Paul the Storyteller A Narratological Approach

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English | ISBN: 0802878954 | 2024 | 448 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
An incisive study of Paul’s use of stories and narratives in his letters

Paul is often thought of as a crafter of numerous and complex arguments, but some scholars, such as N. T. Wright and Richard Hays, have shown that narratives are vitally important in his letters. Through careful examination of the texts, Christoph Heilig demonstrates that Paul is indeed a talented teller of stories-not only explicit narratives but also implicit stories.
In this volume, after a decade of research and writing, Heilig presents his definitive report on narrative in Paul. While Richard Hays and N. T. Wright have argued that Paul’s letters contain implicit narratives, Heilig stresses that a sound methodology requires beginning with text-linguistic investigation of
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