Margaret M Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret M Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7286-6274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In Memoriam J.K. Elliott (1943–2024)
A Tribute to Peder Borgen (1928–2023) and his Legacy of Discovery in the Worlds of Early Judaism and Christianity
In Memoriam Henk Jan de Jonge
John Chrysostom and Christian Love Magic
This article, originally presented as the presidential address at the 2021 SNTS meeting, held virtually via Leuven due to Covid-19 conditions, investigates the nature of Pauline interpretation, past and present. It brings into the scholarly conversation a neglected ancient source, John Chrysostom's occasional homily on 1 Cor 7.2–4 ( Hom. 1 Cor. 7–4 ( CPG 4377)), and provides an analysis of key passages showing how the late antique orator-bishop s…
Religious Studies & the Imagined Boundaries of the Humanities
Religious studies, as taught in American higher education, is in many ways a quintessential instance of the boundlessness of the humanities, since elements of religious traditions and practices are pervasive in literature, history, art, political science, philosophy, law, music, and so on. At the same time, questions about the definition of “religion,” about what constitutes legitimate “religion” protected as such by “religious freedom,” and abou…
A Plot of Possibilities
Elizabeth A. Clark's immensely learned new book, The Fathers Refounded: Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, and the Teaching of Ancient Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America, which follows directly on her examination of the nineteenth century in Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America, is a joy to read and from which to learn about the histories of our discipline, t…
Paul and the Emergence of Christian Textuality
The essays by Margaret M. Mitchell collected in this volume were published over a roughly twenty-five year span of time, and range in scope from the treatment of a two-word phrase (περὶ δέ, »now concerning,« in 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians) to the role of »the written record« in the formation, diffusion, and ultimate success of the Gentile Christ-believing mission in the first three centuries. At the heart of these studies are two main claim…
Peter's ‘Hypocrisy’ and Paul's
In an infamous passage in his Letter to the Galatians (2.11–14), Paul called out Peter as a ‘hypocrite’. This passage, especially when read in light of Paul's own appeal to himself as ‘all things to all people’ in 1 Cor 9.19–23, was to cause deep trouble for later Christian interpreters, who sought to defend their movement against charges from outsiders that it had a cracked and unstable foundation in dual ‘hypocrites’. This essay will introduce …
Special Issue
The Poetics and Politics of Christian Baptism in the Abercius Monument
Chapter 9. Looking for Abercius
Origen, Celsus And Lucian On The "Dénouement Of The Drama" Of The Gospels
The chief counter-argument against identification of two men named Celsus has been that Origen's opponent does not fit description of an Epicurean, which is how Lucian identifies his friend. Both Celsus and Polybius were speaking metaphorically, of course, of textual composition being akin to stragecraft. Origen chides, Celsus apparently did not learn to carry out this school exercise very well. While it is well known that Origen frequently unmas…
Origins to Constantine
Over thirty essays provide a comprehensive overview of the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean world over the first three centuries. The collection traces the dynamic history from the time of Jesus through to the rise of Imperial Christianity in the fourth century. It provides a thoughtful and well-documented analysis of the diverse forms of Christian community, ide…
Patristic Counter-Evidence to the Claim that ‘The Gospels Were Written for All Christians’
Ματθαιος μεν εγραψεν Εβραιοις θαυματα Χριστου, Μαρκος δ Ιταλιη, Λουκας Αχαιαδι, Πασι δ Ιωαννης, κηρυξ μεγας, ουρανοφοιτης. (Gregory of Nazianzus, Carmina dogmatica 1.12.6–9) Richard Bauckham has called on scholars to abandon the reading strategy of redaction criticism that had risen to prominence especially in the 1960s, and return to the way the gospels had always been understood before that – as having been written ‘for all Christians’. The pre…
Patristic Rhetoric on Allegory
The Cambridge Companion to St Paul
The apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as such, they shaped Christian thinking from the beginning. As a missionary, theologian and pastor Paul's own wrestling with theological and ethical questions of his day is paradigmatic for Christian theology, not least for Christianity's own identity and continuing …
The First and Second Letters to Timothy
Homer in the New Testament? The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark . Dennis R. MacDonald
Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives
John Chrysostom. Wendy Mayer , Pauline Allen
Antiquity and Humanity
This volume pays tribute to the remarkable scholarship of Hans Dieter Betz, which has combined amazing range with consistency of vision. Defying the traditional boundaries of the academy, Hans Dieter Betz, Shailer Mathews Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has made significant contributions in the fields of New Testament, classics, church history, theology, and history of religions. This Festschrift brings together t…
A Patristic Perspective on Pauline περιαυτολογια
Contemporary scholars, extending back to Hans Windisch's 1924 commentary on 2 Corinthians, have pointed to parallels between Paul's language of ‘boasting’ in 2 Cor 11–12 and Plutarch's treatise de laude ipsius . But would an ancient reader have made this connection between Paul's letters and discussions about self-praise (περιαυτολογια) in ancient rhetorical and philosophical writings? This paper demonstrates that John Chrysostom, the rhetoricall…
The Heavenly Trumpet
Margaret M. Mitchell argues that all Pauline interpretation depends to a large degree upon the ways in which readers formulate their own mental (and sometimes graphic) images of the author, Paul. John Chrysostom, the most prolific interpreter of the Pauline epistles in the early church (c. 349-407 C.E.), richly exemplifies this phenomenon in his writings and speeches, where he composes word portraits of his beloved Paul, so as to bring his own re…
Rhetoric and Galatians
Portraits of Paul
Paul and the Irony of Affliction . Karl A. Plank
The Editors' Bookshelf
Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation
Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation. An Exegetical Investigation of the Language and Composition of 1 Corinthians
Imitating Paul
John Chrysostom on Philemon
Recently in this journal Allen D. Callahan argued for a bold, distinctive interpretation of Paul's Epistle to Philemon. Contrary to the conventional interpretation, Onesimus was not a (runaway) slave, but was Philemon's own estranged blood brother. Rather than an appeal for forgiveness for a fugitivus , or a request to retain a slave for further service, the Epistle to Philemon is the apostle's attempt to bring about reconciliation between two br…
The Archetypal Image
Her Share of the Blessings
St. Paul's Theology of Proclamation
The Corinthian Body . Dale B. Martin
Portraits of Paul
The Heavenly Trumpet
Margaret M. Mitchell argues that all Pauline interpretation depends to a large degree upon the ways in which readers formulate their own mental (and sometimes graphic) images of the author, Paul. John Chrysostom, the most prolific interpreter of the Pauline epistles in the early church (c. 349-407 C.E.), richly exemplifies this phenomenon in his writings and speeches, where he composes word portraits of his beloved Paul, so as to bring his own re…
Rhetoric and Galatians
Antiquity and Humanity
This volume pays tribute to the remarkable scholarship of Hans Dieter Betz, which has combined amazing range with consistency of vision. Defying the traditional boundaries of the academy, Hans Dieter Betz, Shailer Mathews Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has made significant contributions in the fields of New Testament, classics, church history, theology, and history of religions. This Festschrift brings together t…
A Patristic Perspective on Pauline περιαυτολογια
Contemporary scholars, extending back to Hans Windisch's 1924 commentary on 2 Corinthians, have pointed to parallels between Paul's language of ‘boasting’ in 2 Cor 11–12 and Plutarch's treatise de laude ipsius . But would an ancient reader have made this connection between Paul's letters and discussions about self-praise (περιαυτολογια) in ancient rhetorical and philosophical writings? This paper demonstrates that John Chrysostom, the rhetoricall…
John Chrysostom. Wendy Mayer , Pauline Allen
The Cambridge Companion to St Paul
The apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as such, they shaped Christian thinking from the beginning. As a missionary, theologian and pastor Paul's own wrestling with theological and ethical questions of his day is paradigmatic for Christian theology, not least for Christianity's own identity and continuing …
The First and Second Letters to Timothy
Homer in the New Testament? The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark . Dennis R. MacDonald
Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives
Patristic Counter-Evidence to the Claim that ‘The Gospels Were Written for All Christians’
Ματθαιος μεν εγραψεν Εβραιοις θαυματα Χριστου, Μαρκος δ Ιταλιη, Λουκας Αχαιαδι, Πασι δ Ιωαννης, κηρυξ μεγας, ουρανοφοιτης. (Gregory of Nazianzus, Carmina dogmatica 1.12.6–9) Richard Bauckham has called on scholars to abandon the reading strategy of redaction criticism that had risen to prominence especially in the 1960s, and return to the way the gospels had always been understood before that – as having been written ‘for all Christians’. The pre…
Patristic Rhetoric on Allegory
Origins to Constantine
Over thirty essays provide a comprehensive overview of the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean world over the first three centuries. The collection traces the dynamic history from the time of Jesus through to the rise of Imperial Christianity in the fourth century. It provides a thoughtful and well-documented analysis of the diverse forms of Christian community, ide…
Origen, Celsus And Lucian On The "Dénouement Of The Drama" Of The Gospels
The chief counter-argument against identification of two men named Celsus has been that Origen's opponent does not fit description of an Epicurean, which is how Lucian identifies his friend. Both Celsus and Polybius were speaking metaphorically, of course, of textual composition being akin to stragecraft. Origen chides, Celsus apparently did not learn to carry out this school exercise very well. While it is well known that Origen frequently unmas…
Chapter 9. Looking for Abercius
The Poetics and Politics of Christian Baptism in the Abercius Monument
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