Heavenly Trumpet: John Chrysostom and the Art of Pauline Interpretation

Arguing that all Pauline interpretation depends significantly on the ways in which readers formulate their own images of the apostle, Margaret M. Mitchell posits that John Chrysostom, the most prolific interpreter of the Pauline epistles in the early church, exemplifies this phenomenon. Mitchell brings together Chrysostom's copious portraits of Paul--of his body, his soul, and his life circumstances--and for the first time analyzes them as complex rhetorical compositions built on well-known conventions of Greco-Roman rhetoric. Two appendices offer a fresh translation of Chrysostom's seven homilies de laudibus sancti Pauli and a catalogue of color plates of artistic representations that graphically represent the author/exegete dynamic this study explores.

Author: Margaret M. Mitchell
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 02/01/2002
Pages: 563
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.03w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780664225100

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2002 pg. 648

About the Author
Mitchell, Margaret M.: - Margaret M. Mitchell is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois.