This monograph explores the climactic role of 1 Cor 15 from a rhetorical standpoint. The thesis argued here is that Paul employs the Roman rhetorical technique called insinuatio, where an orator (1) would insinuate the most difficult topic to be addressed at the outset of the discourse (in the exordium), (2) only hint at this insinuated topic throughout the discourse (in the probatio), and (3) finally address the insinuated topic head-on at the end of the discourse as a sort of refutatio. After surveying the history of interpretation on 1 Cor 15 as the climax and identifying the methodology employed here as historical rhetorical criticism, the next major section provides a diachronic and synchronic analysis of the rhetorical device of insinuatio in Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and in Greek and Roman rhetorical practice. This is all then applied to 1 Cor 15 and the case is made (1) that Paul insinuates resurrection via eschatological language in the exordium of 1 Cor 1:4–9, (2) that the eschatological language throughout 1 Cor 1–14 serves as subtle hinting at and building up to the resurrection chapter with only one explicit mention of resurrection in 1 Cor 6:14, and (3) that 1 Cor 15 finally reveals the insinuated topic from the exordium and thus functions primarily as a refutatio of some of the Corinthians’ denial of the resurrection. First Corinthians 15, therefore, fits all of the major criteria of a rhetorical insinuatio, and thus insinuatio rhetorically explains not only Paul’s rhetorical approach in 1 Corinthians at large, but it also answers the perennial questions of how 1 Cor 15 functions as the climax to the epistle and why it is left until the end. Insinuatio, then, is the rhetoric of resurrection.
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于Paul and the Rhetoric of Resurrection
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Timothy J. Christian
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