Waterstones Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes
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Author: Dr. C. Jeynes
Rating: 5
Review: This is an extraordinary book written by an acknowledged master over a lifetime of study and prayer. Kenneth Bailey is an outstanding scholar who has ministered throughout the Middle East for decades, and has brought both his experience in Arabic culture and also his knowledge of the Christian literature in the Arabic and cognate languages to bear on his reading of what is perhaps Paul's most polished letter. For Bailey maintains that the First Letter to the Corinthians was written by Paul self-consciously using the rhetorical methods of the Hebrew Scriptures. Bailey reads the Letter as a well-structured series of homilies, each of which has its own well-defined rhetorical structure deriving directly from "prophetic rhetoric". Bailey points to specific passages in Isaiah as "rhetorical templates" that Paul deliberately used in constructing his own Letter. One thinks of Churchill using the rhetoric of Cicero to craft his own extraordinarily persuasive speeches. Bailey wishes to explicitly locate Pauline theology firmly in the Hebrew Scriptures. I myself have long thought that the answer to people who express a desire to know what Jesus said to the disciples on the road to Emmaus have only to read Paul's letters! And the massive recent work of N.T.Wright ("Paul and the Faithfulness of God", 2013) also details how very deeply Paul was immersed in the Hebrew Scriptures. Bailey takes this a step further, and shows how Paul actually uses the WAY Isaiah brings the Word of God: Paul follows Isaiah's methods, he echoes his voice. We are used to analytically extracting "what he says" from an author's text. But surely, paying attention to "the way he says it" is taking much more seriously Paul's own instruction to us to "conform" ourselves to Him (Phil.3:10)? This wise book will change the way you approach the Word.
Author: damocles
Rating: 1
Review: As other reviews have pointed out, Bailey does a good job identifying all the chiastic structure to Paul's letter, which does help the reader identify and follow the thread of Paul's arguments (rhetoric). When it comes to Bailey's commentary, he does provide a certain amount of historical context to aid the readers interpretation of Paul's letter, however no more, in my opinion, that you might find in a basic Bible dictionary, and certainly not enough to justify this publication. Perhaps most disappointing was Bailey's, in my opinion, disingenuous and bias, commentary on 1Cor 11, regarding women in worship etc. Bailey begins this section of commentary by essentially assuming the 'egalitarian' position of women in ministry, based upon his subjective, and evidently bias, analysis of texts in Roman's and Acts. Bailey them begins to make claims about the creation narratives that are at best confused, or worse, deceptive. Eve, woman, is the climax of God's creation, Gen 2 doesn't signify any created order, according to order of creation, and 'woman was created to help/save the struggling lonely man. The woman was the hero of the story up to that point' This provides the basis for him to eisegetically (reading into Scripture what is not there) come to the conclusion that men and women are completely equal in ministry and responsibility, and all Paul was really saying was that when women lead, don't wear sexy clothes, dress modestly. I'm open to reasonable arguments for egalitarianism in ministry, I don't think that is right, but I'm open to hearing them, but this is derisory nonsense masquerading as scholarship.