‘The Rock Was Christ’: The Fluidity of Christ’s Body in 1 Corinthians 10.4

Thiessen, Matthew

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“…Thiessen (2013:105) op voetspoor van Meeks (1982) dui op breedvoerige wyse aan dat Paulus die lied van Moses in 3. Thiessen (2013:2) verwys hier na m. Avot. 6.5;t.…”

Section: God Die Rots In Die Konteks Van Die Woestyntog: Die Lied Van Moses In Deuteronomium 32 Van Nader Beskouunclassified

Die hermeneutiese proses onderliggend aan Paulus se eksegese van Eksodus 17:6 en Numeri 20:7–11 in 1 Korintiërs 10:1–4

Koning

2021

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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The hermeneutical process underlying Paul’s exegesis of Exodus 17:6 and Numbers 20:7–11 in 1 Corinthians 10:1–4. In this article, Paul’s use of the Old Testament in 1 Corinthians 10:1–4 comes under scrutiny. In contrast with the theory of some modern scholars that Paul uses, ‘fanciful analogies’, ‘startling figurative claims’ and metaphors that ‘should not he pressed’, in reaching his conclusion that ‘the rock was Christ’, in 1 Corinthians 10:4c, it is indicated that Paul is indeed taking the original text, the Old Testament’s interpretation of the text, and the Jewish tradition of the interpretation of the text, seriously, in the light of the Christ-event. To prove this claim, research of the text (Exodus 17:6 Numbers 20:7–11), that Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 10:1–4, is followed by research of the ‘world in front of that text’ (Deuteronomy 32, the Psalms and Second Temple Judaism).Contribution: The conclusion that is reached indicates that Paul established within the context of contemporary Jewish practices, a true dialogical relationship between an intertextual handling of the text, and his interpretation thereof in the light of the relevance of the Christ-event for the conflict in the Church of Corinth.

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“…Thiessen (2013:105) op voetspoor van Meeks (1982) dui op breedvoerige wyse aan dat Paulus die lied van Moses in 3. Thiessen (2013:2) verwys hier na m. Avot. 6.5;t.…”

Section: God Die Rots In Die Konteks Van Die Woestyntog: Die Lied Van Moses In Deuteronomium 32 Van Nader Beskouunclassified

Die hermeneutiese proses onderliggend aan Paulus se eksegese van Eksodus 17:6 en Numeri 20:7–11 in 1 Korintiërs 10:1–4

Koning

2021

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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God Made Manifest: Josephus, Idolatry, and Divine Images in Flavian Rome

Forger

2020

J. Study Jud.

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After the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews lived under Flavian lords who peppered Rome’s landscape with sculpted images of themselves, oftentimes suggesting that these images, and the emperors who stood behind them, functioned as gods in embodied form. This paper considers how these divine images impacted Jews, given that these same Jews lived under Roman authority yet also served the God of Israel alone. By analyzing Josephus’s Antiquities 11.331-334 in light of Israel’s strong anti-idolic tradition, I explore how the name of Israel’s God, inscribed on the high priest’s golden miter, may have functioned as visible counterpoint to the Flavians’ graven images. It is widely assumed that first-century Jews viewed God as invisible, incorporeal, and utterly removed from the material realm, but for Josephus at least God’s name offered a means by which Jews could gaze upon an aspect of their God in visible, perceptible, and material form.

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Scriptural Re-Interpretation and Social Identity Negotiation in the Corinthian Letters

Seal

2023

Religions

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This article describes the socially formative function of the Corinthian letters and the role that Paul’s reinterpretation of scripture plays in shaping the Corinthians’ social identity. Paul’s sustained engagement with scriptural texts in 1 Cor 10:1–22 and 2 Cor 3:1–4:6 provide the focus for analysis as two different interactions with exodus and wilderness narratives in two different social situations within the same correspondence. Like others in Second Temple Judaism, Paul uses the exodus and wilderness narratives of Israel’s paradigmatic rebellion to interpret a social situation, define group identity, and increase intergroup differentiation from outsiders and intragroup cohesiveness. Social Identity Theory (SIT) provides the conceptual framework for a robust interpretive model that identifies specific textual features that realize each aspect of social identity. This approach shows that in 1 Cor 10:1–22, Paul addresses the idol food issue by establishing shared experiences with the wilderness generation to interpret the Corinthians’ situation as parallel with the deviant idolatrous behavior of their forebears. In 2 Cor 3:1–4:6, Paul addresses tensions with the Corinthians using the veiling language of Exod 34 to differentiate the ingroup from outgroups according to their sight or blindness, respectively, which correlate to response to his ministry.

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‘The Rock Was Christ’: The Fluidity of Christ’s Body in 1 Corinthians 10.4

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Die hermeneutiese proses onderliggend aan Paulus se eksegese van Eksodus 17:6 en Numeri 20:7–11 in 1 Korintiërs 10:1–4

Die hermeneutiese proses onderliggend aan Paulus se eksegese van Eksodus 17:6 en Numeri 20:7–11 in 1 Korintiërs 10:1–4

God Made Manifest: Josephus, Idolatry, and Divine Images in Flavian Rome

Scriptural Re-Interpretation and Social Identity Negotiation in the Corinthian Letters

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