1 Clement as an Argumentative Text

Notes on Contributors

1 First Clement as an Argumentative Text: Introduction

 David du Toit

2 Res publica restituta as the Premise of the Argument of 1 Clement

 L.L. Welborn

3 The Rhetoric of Slavery and the Argument for Concord in 1 Clement

 Jeremiah Bailey

4 The Argumentative Function of the Gift: God’s Benefactions in 1 Clement 19:2–21:1

 Kathrin Hager

5 Vindication and Admonition: The Argumentative Function of Wisdom 2:24 in 1 Clement 3–6

 Jacob N. Cerone

6 The Narrative on Cain’s Fratricide (Genesis 4:3–8 LXX) in 1 Clement 3:4–4:7 and Its Aetiological Function in the Argument

 Cilliers Breytenbach

7 The Role (and Absence) of Genesis 1–4 in the Argument of 1 Clement

 David J. Downs

8 A Grapevine’s Lesson for Imbeciles: “Miserable Are Those Who Waffle and Waver!”

Argumentation in 1 Clement 23, 2 Clement 11, and Their Common Source

 James A. Kelhoffer

9 Obedience to God in 1 Clement 13–14: The Spirit’s Commandment and the Lord’s Precepts as “Holy Words” to Be Obeyed

 Paul A. Hartog

10 Argumentation in 1 Clement: A Consensualist Reading

 Tanja Forderer

11 Metaphorical Argumentation in 1 Clement: The Life Journey and Competition Metaphors

 Jonathan Reichel

12 Contested Space and Dangerous Places: Literary Space and Argumentation in 1 Clement

 David du Toit

13 A Spatio-Rhetorical Examination of the Persuasive Strategies of 1 Clement

 Harry O. Maier

14 With “Heart” and “Soul”: On Moral Anthropology and Its Argumentative Use in 1 Clement

 Hermut Löhr

15 Out of Order: Reading the Argument of 1 Clement in the Sequence of the Liturgical Cycle of Cambridge, University Library, Add. 1700

 Dan Batovici

16 The Interpretation of Argumentative Structures in 1 Clement in Its Early Modern Editions and Translations

 Patrick Bahl

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