This book engages the structure and message of 1 Corinthians within its most relevant context of late Western antiquity's oral culture. Using a text-centered methodology, Timothy Milinovich demonstrates and analyzes a series of concentric patterns (or ring formations) through which Paul develops his arguments to the Corinthian church. Such patterns

This ground-breaking historical study examines the many conjectures on the Greek text made by Erasmus and Beza in their multiple editions of the New Testament. In the process, the author critically assesses their views and methods of New Testament textual criticism.

Gordon Fee's work on I Corinthians is a contribution to The New International Commentary on the New Testament. Prepared by some of the world's leading scholars, the series provides an exposition of the New Testament books that is thorough and fully abreast of modern scholarship yet faithful to the Scriptures

Books about Scripture Alone or the Word of God Alone?

"The Rhetorical Role of Scripture in 1 Corinthians," an exegetical analysis of all the explicit quotations and references to the Old Testament in Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, examines the various authoritative roles that not only scriptural quotations but also other explicit references and allusions to scripture play in