This volume explores the significance of 1 Clement as an argumentative text a text that substantiates and offers reasons for a specific course of action which readers of the work should take. The contributions to this volume analyze the various argumentative strategies the author of 1 Clement employs in service of the letter's overall aims. Some essays focus on the cultural knowledge underlying the argumentation, while others on the function and use of Scripture. Several essays offer insights from other disciplines theories of argumentation, metaphor, and (literary and cultural) space, as well as historical anthropology to facilitate the analysis of 1 Clement's argument. The final two essays investigate the way the argumentative structure of 1 Clement was interpreted and used in two very different contexts of reception.
Notes on Contributors
1 First Clement as an Argumentative Text: Introduction
David du Toit
2 Res publica restituta as the Premise of the Argument of 1Clement
L.L. Welborn
3 The Rhetoric of Slavery and the Argument for Concord in 1Clement
Jeremiah Bailey
4 The Argumentative Function of the Gift: Gods Benefactions in 1Clement
19:221:1
Kathrin Hager
5 Vindication and Admonition: The Argumentative Function of Wisdom 2:24 in
1Clement 36
Jacob N. Cerone
6 The Narrative on Cains Fratricide (Genesis 4:38 LXX) in 1Clement 3:44:7
and Its Aetiological Function in the Argument
Cilliers Breytenbach
7 The Role (and Absence) of Genesis 14 in the Argument of 1Clement
David J. Downs
8 A Grapevines Lesson for Imbeciles: Miserable Are Those Who Waffle and
Waver!
Argumentation in 1Clement 23, 2Clement 11, and Their Common Source
James A. Kelhoffer
9 Obedience to God in 1Clement 1314: The Spirits Commandment and the
Lords Precepts as Holy Words to Be Obeyed
Paul A. Hartog
10 Argumentation in 1Clement: A Consensualist Reading
Tanja Forderer
11 Metaphorical Argumentation in 1Clement: The Life Journey and Competition
Metaphors
Jonathan Reichel
12 Contested Space and Dangerous Places: Literary Space and Argumentation in
1Clement
David du Toit
13 A Spatio-Rhetorical Examination of the Persuasive Strategies of 1Clement
Harry O. Maier
14 With Heart and Soul: On Moral Anthropology and Its Argumentative Use
in 1Clement
Hermut Löhr
15 Out of Order: Reading the Argument of 1Clement in the Sequence of the
Liturgical Cycle of Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1700
Dan Batovici
16 The Interpretation of Argumentative Structures in 1Clement in Its Early
Modern Editions and Translations
Patrick Bahl
Index
Jacob N. Cerone is a doctoral candidate in New Testament at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is an in-house editor of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (de Gruyter, Berlin), Series Editor of Classic Studies on the Apostolic Fathers (Pickwick), and Series Editor of Patristic Essentials (Fontes Press). He is also a coeditor of the Apostolic Fathers Greek Reader (GlossaHouse) and Daily Scriptures (Eerdmans)
David du Toit is Professor of New Testament (History and Literature of Early Christianity) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was awarded a doctoral degree (1996: Theios Anthropos. Zur Verwendung von und sinnverwandten Ausdrücken in der Literatur der Kaiserzeit, published 1997) as well as a Habilitation (2006: Der abwesende Herr. Narrative und geschichtstheologische Strategien im Markusevangelium zur Bewältigung der Abwesenheit des Auferstandenen) by the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is editor of the series WMANT and FoSub. His main research interests include early Christology, the Gospel of Mark, Early Christianity and Greco-Roman culture, semantics and lexicography of early Christian Greek, methodology in Historical-Jesus-research.
Kathrin Hager is a doctoral candidate at the chair for New Testament at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and is pastor in the Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Eckenhaid. From 20172023 she was an assistant to the chair of New Testament, first at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and then at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität. Her dissertation project focuses on the foundation of ethics in 1 Clement.
