Rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity

Penner, Todd; Stichele, C.H.C.M. Vander

doi:10.1017/ccol9780521860543.017

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric 2009

DOI: 10.1017/ccol9780521860543.017

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Rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity

Todd Penner¹,

C.H.C.M. Vander Stichele²

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“…Some interpreters conclude that the ‘Paul’ of their chosen text conforms to ancient masculine ideals. For example, Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele argue that the portrait of Paul in Acts represents him as an ideal man (Penner and Vander Stichele 2004: 208). 2 In their reading, Luke crafts speeches for Paul that uphold ‘cardinal virtues of imperial male comportment’ (Penner and Vander Stichele 2004: 203), and Paul’s blinding of Elymas (Acts 13.4-12) ‘displays his masculine power’ (Penner and Vander Stichele 2004: 204).…”

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“…For example, Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele argue that the portrait of Paul in Acts represents him as an ideal man (Penner and Vander Stichele 2004: 208). 2 In their reading, Luke crafts speeches for Paul that uphold ‘cardinal virtues of imperial male comportment’ (Penner and Vander Stichele 2004: 203), and Paul’s blinding of Elymas (Acts 13.4-12) ‘displays his masculine power’ (Penner and Vander Stichele 2004: 204). Similarly, Colleen Conway argues that Paul and other disciples reflect Jesus’ conventional masculinity: ‘belief in Jesus enables one to achieve true masculinity – to be a manly man’ (Conway 2008: 133).…”

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Malleable Masculinity: Rethinking Paul’s Masculinity in Light of Valerius Maximus

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2022

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Scholarly appraisals of Paul’s masculinity differ widely. Some conclude that Paul is presented (by himself or another author) as an ideal man. Others argue that Paul rejects dominant norms of manliness or that he offers a countercultural alternative. This article draws on the work of Valerius Maximus, whose writing has been neglected in this conversation, to argue that Roman imperial culture offered a variety of measures of elite masculinity. Scholars often mention control of self and others as norms of manliness, and of these Valerius emphasizes practices of self-control. Even with this knowledge, however, evaluating masculinity requires discernment. An individual’s motivations and circumstances are essential factors in Valerius’s application of the social norms. The article encourages scholars to consider this more complex set of cultural norms in assessing the manliness of Paul or other New Testament figures.

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Malleable Masculinity: Rethinking Paul’s Masculinity in Light of Valerius Maximus

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2022

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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State of the Scholarship in Classics on Ancient Roman Rhetoric

Kennerly

Lamp

2017

Advances in the History of Rhetoric

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Limiting ourselves to scholarly books published in English from 2009–2016, we survey classics scholarship about rhetoric in ancient Rome from the late republic through the early empire. We seek traditional threads and growing trends across those works that advance our understanding of rhetoric’s practical, theoretical, and material manifestations during that time of tumult and transition. We begin broadly, using companion books to delineate three structural pillars in the scholarship: rhetoric as a formal cultural system, the republic as subject to ruptures and reinventions, and Cicero as a foremost statesman of the late republic. Then we move into scholarship that draws upon nontraditional rhetorical objects, such as art, and that moves into increasingly vibrant areas of interest in rhetoric, such as the senses. Overall, we find that classicists writing about ancient Roman rhetorical culture share with their counterparts in rhetoric an urge to test old verities and to add historical depth to larger scholarly turns within the humanities.

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State of the Scholarship in Classics on Ancient Roman Rhetoric

Kennerly¹,

Lamp

2017

Journal for the History of Rhetoric

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Malleable Masculinity: Rethinking Paul’s Masculinity in Light of Valerius Maximus

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