Paul as Infant and Nursing Mother: Metaphor, Rhetoric, and Identity in 1 Thessalonians 2:5-8

Contributor(s): McNeel, Jennifer Houston (Author)

ISBN: 9781589839663

Publisher: SBL Press

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Pub Date: September 5, 2014

Dewey: 227.81

LCCN: 2014008185

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.49" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.71 lbs) 216 pages

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Series: Early Christianity and Its Literature

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Description: This book employs cognitive metaphor theory and social identity analysis to argue that Pauls infant and nurse metaphors serve his letters rhetorical goals by emphasizing his trustworthiness and creating a kinship relationship among community members and between Paul and the Thessalonians.

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