Abstract
A text-centred rhetorical analysis of 1 Corinthians 4The traditional approach in rhetorical analyses of Paul’s letters is to apply categories derived from the Greek-Roman rhetorical system to make sense of his persuasive strategy. The problem with this approach is that the categories were intended for the production of speeches and not for the analysis of letters. In order to address the problem, scholars have developed alternative approaches to the analysis of his letters – one of them is the so-called text-centred approach. By analysing 1 Corinthians 4 through a text-centred approach, I intend to provide additional evidence that it is unnecessary to force ancient rhetorical categories (from outside) on the chapter to make sense of Paul’s persuasive strategy. It can be reconstructed fairly accurately from the text itself, provided that the chapter is studied carefully and systematically.
Highlights
By analysing 1 Corinthians 4 through a text-centred approach, I intend to provide additional evidence that it is unnecessary to force ancient rhetorical categories on the chapter to make sense of Paul’s persuasive strategy
Ten einde die probleem te hanteer, het geleerdes alternatiewe benaderings tot die analise van Paulus se briewe ontwikkel, waaronder die sogenaamde teksgesentreerde benadering
Waarna bogenoemde voorstel van Tolmie – met sy fokus op die funksionele aspekte van die teks – gebruik word om die proses van oorreding in die hoofstuk te beskryf
Summary
Twee sake verdien aandag voordat die proses van oorreding in besonderhede bespreek word, naamlik die retoriese konteks waarin Paulus 1 Korintiërs geskryf het, asook Paulus se retoriese strategie. 3.1.1 ’n Rekonstruksie van die retoriese konteks waarin Paulus 1 Korintiërs geskryf het “Die mense van Chloë” (1:11) het hom mondelings ingelig oor die situasie in Korinte en waarskynlik ook die brief aan hom oorhandig waarna in 7:1 verwys word (Schüssler Fiorenza, 1987:395). Dit het noodwendig tot kauchēsis gelei, wat radikaal teen Paulus en sy boodskap ingedruis het en dus reggestel moes word. In die brief probeer Paulus dus om sy lesers te oorreed om sy gesag as apostel (insluitend die waarheid van sy kruisevangelie en die ware aard van die apostelskap) te erken, hulle selfverheffing te laat vaar, en so hulle partydigheid te oorkom. Deurgaans gebruik hy effektiewe argumente en oorredingstegnieke soos hieronder geïllustreer sal word
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