An End to Enmity

This book casts light upon the shadowy figure of the "wrongdoer" in Second Corinthians, disclosing the type of offence that was committed and the relationship of the "wrongdoer" to Paul and to the Corinthians. Drawing upon the social and rhetorical conventions that governed friendship, enmity and reconciliation in the Greco-Roman world, the book offers an hypothesis regarding the identity of the "wrongdoer" and reconstructs the history of Paul's relationship with an influential convert to Christianity at Corinth.

Auteur

Larry L. Welborn, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA.

Résumé

An End to Enmity casts light upon the shadowy figure of the wrongdoer of Second Corinthians by exploring the social and rhetorical conventions that governed friendship, enmity and reconciliation in the Greco-Roman world. The book puts forward a novel hypothesis regarding the identity of the wrongdoer and the nature of his offence against Paul. Drawing upon the prosopographic data of Paul's Corinthian epistles and the epigraphic and archaeological record of Roman Corinth, the author shapes a robust image of the kind of individual who did Paul wrong and caused pain to both Paul and the Corinthians. The concluding chapter reconstructs the history of Paul's relationship with an influential convert to Christianity at Corinth.