First Corinthians: A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians

357 Pages·1988·134.467 MB·English

by  Hans Conzelmann

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1 Corinthians
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Tranalated from the German Dtr mu Brief an du
Ellrirlllttr by Hana Conzelmann (tat edition).
Kritilch-Exegetilc:her Kommentar il.ber du Neue
Testament begrundet von Heinrich August Wilhelm
Meyer, Fil.nfte Abteilung-11. Auftage.O Vanden·
hoeck &: Ruprecht, Gllttingen, 1969.
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1 Corinthians
A Commentary on
the First Epistle
to the Corinthians
by Hans Conzelmann
Translated by
James W. Leitch
Bibliography and References by
James W. Dunkly
Edited by
George W. MacRae, S.J .
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Hermeneia
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Old Testament Editorial Board
Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University, chairman
Klaus Baltzer, University of Munich
Paul D. Hanson, Harvard University
S. Dean McBride, Jr., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
Peter Machinist, Harvard University
Susan Niditch, Amherst College
Christopher R. Seitz, Yale University
Roland E. Murphy, 0. Carm., emeritus
New Testament Editorial Board
Helmut Koester, Harvard University, chairman
Harold W. Attridge, University of Notre Dame
Adela Yarbro Collins, University of Chicago
Eldon jay Epp. Case Western Reserve University
James M. Robinson, Claremont Graduate School
FDR ELISABETH
The Author
Hans Conzelmann, born in 1915, served on the theo
logical faculties at Tiibingen, Heidelberg, and Zurich
before assuming his present position on the theological
faculty at Gottingen. He is well known in English for The
Theology of St. Lulce (1960), An Outline of the Theology of
the New Testament (1969) and Jesus (1973). He has also
contributed to Kittel's Theological Dictionary of the New
Testament, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Das Neue
Testament Deutsch, the Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, and
the Meyer Kommentar. His thorou·gh revision of Martin
Dibelius' The Pastoral Epistles has already appeared
in Hermeneia.
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