Ryan S Schellenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5880430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan S Schellenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan S |
| FAMILY NAME | Schellenberg |
| SIGNATURE | SCHELLENBERG R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Methodist Theological School in Ohio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0754-3556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us?’ (Luke 24
Idioms describing specific emotional states with reference to hot or cold body temperatures are ubiquitous across cultural groups and appear to reflect the interpretive affordances of basic physiological processes. Thus high-arousal emotions tend to be associated with heat and low-arousal emotions with cold. Nonetheless, these associations are not universal but are shaped by cultural history. The description in the Gospel of Luke of the disciples…
On Pauline Indeterminacy
Epistolary Affects
This introduction briefly describes the affectively charged materiality of ancient letters, including Paul’s, then situates the articles in this special issue in relation to current trends in scholarship on affect and emotion in Paul. Mapping this diverse scholarship by surveying its orientation toward history and the body, it asks which conventional assumptions of Pauline scholarship these approaches disrupt, and which they leave intact
The First Semester
“Making My Prayer with Joy”
Drawing on recent literature in the history of emotions, this article describes Paul’s epistolary prayers as emotional practices that aim to harmonize and amplify the emotions of Paul and his addressees, particularly shared joy and longing. In Philippians and 1 Thessalonians, philophronetic topoi and the emotional norms they encode provide the basic cultural logic undergirding these prayers’ affective work. Compensating more or less successfully …
The ‘Praetorium’ and ‘Caesar’s Household’
Οἱ Πιστεύοντες
Although it is widely recognised that οἱ πιστεύοντες was a self-designation of the early Christ groups, this is not reflected in scholarship on Romans and Galatians, where the participle is usually taken as a generic substantive. Such a rendering obscures the force of Paul's rhetoric, which presupposes the status of οἱ πιστεύοντες as a shared self-designation and mobilises it in an effort to naturalise Paul's claims regarding the exclusive justif…
Subsistence, Swapping, and Paul's Rhetoric of Generosity
Although there is broad consensus that the majority of the early Christ followers were poor, descriptions of the economic practices of their assemblies have focused on the contributions of a surplus-possessing minority. This article employs ethnographic accounts of the economic activities of the poor to challenge the assumption that Paul's injunctions to generosity were targeted primarily at wealthier members. Since there is ample evidence from n…
Paul, Samson Occom, and the Constraints of Boasting
Few texts in the Pauline corpus have been subjected to such extensive and varied comparative analysis as 2 Cor 10–13. Since Hans Windisch's influential designation of the passage as a Narrenrede (“fool's speech”), wherein Paul apes the boastful fool (ὁ ἀλαζών) of the Greek mime, exegetes have assembled a remarkable array of additional comparanda: the peristasis or hardship catalogues of Cynic and Stoic philosophers; Augustus's Res gestae ; apolog…
They Spoke the Truest of Words
Among the most salient features of Herodotus' narrative is his delightful use of both direct and indirect speech. As a number of scholars have noted, Herodotus' speeches occasionally carry overtones for his contemporary readers that the characters in the narrative could not have understood or appreciated. Such features are often considered merely anachronistic; however, the narratological distinction between a speech's intra- and extradiegetic fu…
They Spoke the Truest of Words
Among the most salient features of Herodotus' narrative is his delightful use of both direct and indirect speech. As a number of scholars have noted, Herodotus' speeches occasionally carry overtones for his contemporary readers that the characters in the narrative could not have understood or appreciated. Such features are often considered merely anachronistic; however, the narratological distinction between a speech's intra- and extradiegetic fu…
Paul, Samson Occom, and the Constraints of Boasting
Few texts in the Pauline corpus have been subjected to such extensive and varied comparative analysis as 2 Cor 10–13. Since Hans Windisch's influential designation of the passage as a Narrenrede (“fool's speech”), wherein Paul apes the boastful fool (ὁ ἀλαζών) of the Greek mime, exegetes have assembled a remarkable array of additional comparanda: the peristasis or hardship catalogues of Cynic and Stoic philosophers; Augustus's Res gestae ; apolog…
Subsistence, Swapping, and Paul's Rhetoric of Generosity
Although there is broad consensus that the majority of the early Christ followers were poor, descriptions of the economic practices of their assemblies have focused on the contributions of a surplus-possessing minority. This article employs ethnographic accounts of the economic activities of the poor to challenge the assumption that Paul's injunctions to generosity were targeted primarily at wealthier members. Since there is ample evidence from n…
Οἱ Πιστεύοντες
Although it is widely recognised that οἱ πιστεύοντες was a self-designation of the early Christ groups, this is not reflected in scholarship on Romans and Galatians, where the participle is usually taken as a generic substantive. Such a rendering obscures the force of Paul's rhetoric, which presupposes the status of οἱ πιστεύοντες as a shared self-designation and mobilises it in an effort to naturalise Paul's claims regarding the exclusive justif…
The First Semester
“Making My Prayer with Joy”
Drawing on recent literature in the history of emotions, this article describes Paul’s epistolary prayers as emotional practices that aim to harmonize and amplify the emotions of Paul and his addressees, particularly shared joy and longing. In Philippians and 1 Thessalonians, philophronetic topoi and the emotional norms they encode provide the basic cultural logic undergirding these prayers’ affective work. Compensating more or less successfully …
The ‘Praetorium’ and ‘Caesar’s Household’
Epistolary Affects
This introduction briefly describes the affectively charged materiality of ancient letters, including Paul’s, then situates the articles in this special issue in relation to current trends in scholarship on affect and emotion in Paul. Mapping this diverse scholarship by surveying its orientation toward history and the body, it asks which conventional assumptions of Pauline scholarship these approaches disrupt, and which they leave intact
On Pauline Indeterminacy
Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us?’ (Luke 24
Idioms describing specific emotional states with reference to hot or cold body temperatures are ubiquitous across cultural groups and appear to reflect the interpretive affordances of basic physiological processes. Thus high-arousal emotions tend to be associated with heat and low-arousal emotions with cold. Nonetheless, these associations are not universal but are shaped by cultural history. The description in the Gospel of Luke of the disciples…
Philosophy (8 works) · History (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)