Tag: 1 Corinthians

How to Understand “Baptism for the Dead” according to 1 Corinthians 15:29’s Early Interpreters
The “proxy baptism” interpretation of 1 Cor 15:29 arises early. To it, various responses emerge as authors grapple with competing traditions.
3 March 2025
Research on (Re)writing Prophets in the Corinthian Correspondence
If hermeneutics of “rewritten Bible” are highlighted, it’s easier to compare these texts and their hermeneutics with Paul’s interpretive work.
7 September 2020
Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 1 Corinthians
“Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 1 Corinthians” helps clarify Paul’s engagement with Scripture and has already received some very kind praise.
5 August 2019
Daily Gleanings: Textual Criticism (29 July 2019)
The Göttingen Septuagint volume on Ecclesiastes is now available from V&R. The Göttingen series is a fabulous resource, and it’s wonderful to see some further gradual progress toward its completion. HT: John Meade Tommy Wasserman discusses a couple potential new 1 Corinthians fragments. The updates at the bottom of the post, as well as the…
29 July 2019
Daily Gleanings: SCJ Plenaries (15 April 2019)
On 5–6 April, I attended the annual Stone-Campbell Journal Conference. One of the most fascinating papers was that by David Fiensy. The paper was rather innocuously titled “Interpreting Acts: The Value of Archaeology.” But David delivered a fascinating, eye-opening discussion of disease in the ancient Mediterranean. David’s primary evidence is archaeologically preserved in bones and…
15 April 2019
Gabriel Vasquez on Thomas Aquinas
Gabriel Vasquez (also Gabriele Vázquez) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian from the late 16th and early 17th centuries (BnF; Antonio Goyena, “Gabriel Vasquez” CE). In his time, Vasquez was known for a strong familiarity with different authors and schools of thought, and Benedict XIV praised him as a “luminary of theology” (Goyena, “Gabriel Vasquez” CE).…
24 September 2018