Lifting the Veil
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Michael Cover
About this book
What accounts for the seemingly atypical pattern of scriptural exegesis that Paul uses to interpret Exodus 34 in 2 Cor 3:7-18? While previous scholars have approached this question from a variety of angles, in this monograph, Michael Cover grapples particularly with the evidence of contemporaneous Jewish and Greco-Roman commentary traditions. Through comparison with Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Commentary, the Pseudo-Philonic homilies De Jona and De Sampsone, the Anonymous Theaetetus Commentary, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Seneca's Epistulae morales, and other New Testament texts, Paul's interpretation of Exodus emerges as part of a wider commentary practice that Cover terms "secondary-level exegesis." This study also provides new analysis of the way ancient authors, including Paul, interwove commentary forms and epistolary rhetoric and offers a reconstruction of the context of Paul's conflict with rival apostles in Corinth. At root was the legacy of Moses and of the Pentateuch itself, how the scriptures ought to be read, and how Platonizing theological and anthropological traditions might be interwoven with Paul's messianic gospel.
Author / Editor information
Michael Cover, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Reviews
Thomas Schmeller in: Biblische Zeitschrift 61 (2017) No.2
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Part One: Paul’s Exegesis of Exodus 34 in Light of the Undisputed Epistles
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Part Two: Secondary-Level Exegesis in Hellenistic Commentaries, Homilies, and Other Exegetical Writings
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Part Three: Lifting the Veil: The Rhetorical Function and Theological Purpose of Paul’s Exegesis of Exodus 34
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