Campbell Douglas Atchison - Framing Paul: An Epistolary Biography

Let no one consider this wasted labor,
nor the investigation itself a sign of idle curiosity.
For knowing the chronological sequence of the epistles
is of great help in our studying them.

Chrysostom, Homilies on Romans, Preface

Framing Paul

An Epistolary Biography

Douglas A. Campbell

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Campbell, Douglas A. (Douglas Atchison), 1961
Framing Paul: an epistolary biography / Douglas A. Campbell.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8028-7151-0 (pbk.: alk. paper)
eISBN 978-1-4674-4203-9 (ePub)
eISBN 978-1-4674-4169-8 (Kindle)
1. Paul, the Apostle, Saint. 2. Bible. Epistles of Paul
Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title.
BS2506.3.C365 2014
225.92 dc23
2014015190

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Contents

2. The Epistolary Backbone:
Romans and the Corinthian Correspondence

I have extended thanks at more length in the preface to many of those who have supported this project, partly to indicate just how their contributions have specifically enriched the analysis. But in addition to those named there, I would like to acknowledge here the help I received from my research assistants, Lauren Greenspan, Sean Kelly, Joseph Longarino, and Stephanie Gehring, from my former students Brendan Case, Jeremiah Bailey, and William Glass, and from my colleagues within the guild who responded graciously to my inquiries about various aspects of their work, past and present: Jeffrey A. D. Weima, Ann Jervis, Gregory Tatum, Mark Goodacre, and Richard DeMaris. And I remain deeply grateful to the editorial work and sage advice of both Judith Heyhoe and Carol Shoun, and to the wonderful team at Eerdmans.

Biographical

FVFounding visit (FVT: to Thessalonica; FVC: to Corinth; and so on)

LTLetter of Tears: Pauls letter that preceded 2 Cor, described this way in 2:4

PLCPrevious Letter to Corinth from Paul

PLPPrevious Letter to Philippi from Paul

TPCFTravel Plan Corinth First: Pauls travel plan to proceed from Ephesus to Corinth, go on to Macedonia, and then return to Corinth, hence visiting Corinth first, and twice in total during the journey

TPMFTravel Plan Macedonia First: Pauls travel plan to proceed from Ephesus to Corinth by way of Macedonia, hence visiting Macedonia first and Corinth only once in total

VCVisit to Corinth

VEVisit to Ephesus

VJVisit to Jerusalem

VMVisit to Macedonia

VTVisit to Thessalonica

Bibliographic

ABAnchor Bible

ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by D. N. Freedman. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

ABRLAnchor Bible Reference Library

ACCSAncient Christian Commentary on Scripture

ACTAncient Christian Texts

AnBibAnalecta biblica

ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers

ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der rmischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Edited by H. Temporini and W. Haase. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1972-.

BDAGBauer, W., F. W. Danker, W. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich, eds. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

BECNTBaker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

BEHEBibliothque de lcole des Hautes tudes

BETLBibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium

BISBiblical Interpretation Series

BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester

BNTCBlacks New Testament Commentaries

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZAWBeihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

BZNWBeihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

CBQMSCatholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series

CIG Corpus inscriptionum graecarum. Edited by A. Boeckh. 4 vols. Berlin: Riemer, 1828-77.

COPColloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum

CSELCorpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum

DP&L Dictionary of Paul and His Letters. Edited by G. F. Hawthorne and R. P. Martin. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 1993.

ESEmerging Scholars

ETL Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

ETSErfurter theologische Studien

EvT Evangelische Theologie

FASkForschungen zur antiken Sklaverei

FFNTFoundations and Facets: New Testament

FRLANTForschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

GNSGood News Studies

HermHermeneia

HTKNTHerders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament

HUTHermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie

ICCInternational Critical Commentary

JSNTSupJournal for the Study of the New Testament: Supplement Series

KEKKritisch-exegetischer Kommentar ber das Neue Testament (Meyer-Kommentar)

LBSLinguistic Biblical Studies

LCLLoeb Classical Library

LNTSLibrary of New Testament Studies

LPSLibrary of Pauline Studies

MdBLe Monde de la Bible

MTBMnchner Theologische Beitrge

NBBCNew Beacon Bible Commentary

NICNTNew International Commentary on the New Testament

NIGTCNew International Greek Testament Commentary

NovTSupNovum Testamentum Supplements

NPNF Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1

NPNF Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2

NTCThe New Testament in Context

NTDDas Neue Testament Deutsch

NTLNew Testament Library

NTOANovum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus

PFESPublications of the Finnish Exegetical Society

PGPatrologia graeca [= Patrologiae cursus completus: Series graeca]. Edited by J.-P. Migne. 162 vols. Paris, 1857-86.

PLPatrologia latina [= Patrologiae cursus completus: Series latina]. Edited by J.-P. Migne. 217 vols. Paris, 1844-64.

PSPauline Studies

RB Revue biblique

RBn Revue bndictine

SBLDSSociety of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series

SBLSBSSociety of Biblical Literature Sources for Biblical Study

SBLSymSSociety of Biblical Literature Symposium Series

SNTSMSSociety for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

SPSacra Pagina

STACStudien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum

SUNTStudien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments

ThKNTTheologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament

TSK Theologische Studien und Kritiken

TUTexte und Untersuchungen

TVTheopolitical Visions

TZ Theologische Zeitschrift

TZT Tbinger Zeitschrift fr Theologie

VCSupSupplements to Vigiliae christianae

WBCWord Biblical Commentary

WMANTWissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament

WUNTWissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

ZAC Zeitschrift fr Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

ZNW Zeitschrift fr die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der lteren Kirche

ZPE Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik

ZTK Zeitschrift fr Theologie und Kirche

ZWKBZrcher Werkkommentare zur Bibel

ZWT Zeitschrift fr wissenschaftliche Theologie

The origins of this project lie as is often the case with some of my teachers in graduate school. Richard Longenecker was writing his excellent commentary on Galatians (1990) when I was in the program at the University of Toronto in the late 80s, and his students were intimately familiar with his extensive defense of the South Galatian hypothesis. (The book-length introduction was circulating in manuscript.) But, rather unusually, this defense was crafted in conversation with the views of his colleague in the Toronto School of Theology, and one of our other teachers, John Hurd, from whom Longenecker always encouraged his students to learn. Thus, we were all familiar with John Knoxs arguments, along with Hurds (1983 [1965]) superb development of his views in specific relation to 1 Corinthians. Peter Richardson also was interested in biographical issues and brought a fertile mind to any such discussions. So biographical issues were vigorously in play at Toronto in relation to the study of Paul. Then I had a stroke of luck.