1 Clement as an Argumentative Text /

1 Clement as an Argumentative Text /

This volume explores the significance of 1 Clement as an argumentative text - a text that substantiates and offers reasons for a specific course of action which readers of the work should take. The contributions to this volume analyze the various argumentative strategies the author of 1 Clement empl...

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Other Authors: Cerone, Jacob N. (Editor), Hager, Kathrin (Editor), Toit, David S. Du (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Novum Testamentum, Supplements ; 196.

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Biblical Studies.
Religious Studies.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 First Clement as an Argumentative Text: Introduction
  • David du Toit
  • 2 Res publica restituta as the Premise of the Argument of 1 Clement
  • L.L. Welborn
  • 3 The Rhetoric of Slavery and the Argument for Concord in 1 Clement
  • Jeremiah Bailey
  • 4 The Argumentative Function of the Gift: God's Benefactions in 1 Clement 19:2-21:1
  • Kathrin Hager
  • 5 Vindication and Admonition: The Argumentative Function of Wisdom 2:24 in 1 Clement 3-6
  • Jacob N. Cerone
  • 6 The Narrative on Cain's Fratricide (Genesis 4:3-8 LXX ) in 1 Clement 3:4-4:7 and Its Aetiological Function in the Argument
  • Cilliers Breytenbach
  • 7 The Role (and Absence) of Genesis 1-4 in the Argument of 1 Clement
  • David J. Downs
  • 8 A Grapevine's Lesson for Imbeciles: "Miserable Are Those Who Waffle and Waver!"
  • Argumentation in 1 Clement 23, 2 Clement 11, and Their Common Source
  • James A. Kelhoffer
  • 9 Obedience to God in 1 Clement 13-14: The Spirit's Commandment and the Lord's Precepts as "Holy Words" to Be Obeyed
  • Paul A. Hartog
  • 10 Argumentation in 1 Clement: A Consensualist Reading
  • Tanja Forderer
  • 11 Metaphorical Argumentation in 1 Clement: The Life Journey and Competition Metaphors
  • Jonathan Reichel
  • 12 Contested Space and Dangerous Places: Literary Space and Argumentation in 1 Clement
  • David du Toit
  • 13 A Spatio-Rhetorical Examination of the Persuasive Strategies of 1 Clement
  • Harry O. Maier
  • 14 With "Heart" and "Soul": On Moral Anthropology and Its Argumentative Use in 1 Clement
  • Hermut Löhr
  • 15 Out of Order: Reading the Argument of 1 Clement in the Sequence of the Liturgical Cycle of Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1700
  • Dan Batovici
  • 16 The Interpretation of Argumentative Structures in 1 Clement in Its Early Modern Editions and Translations
  • Patrick Bahl
  • Index.