Aernie examines the prophetic
material in the Old Testament and its relationship with the prophetic material
in Second Temple Judaism, Hellenism, and the early Christian movement. The subsequent
analysis of 1 Corinthians constitutes an investigation of the effect of
the Old Testament prophetic tradition on Paul's self-presentation in 1 Cor
9.15-18 and rhetorical framework in 1 Cor 14.20-25 as a methodological
foundation for the...