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Sarcasm in Paul's Letters
Book • 2022
Matthew Pawlak's 'Sarcasm in Paul's Letters' offers the first systematic study of sarcasm within Pauline literature, focusing on the undisputed letters to identify where and how Paul employs sarcastic rhetoric.
Drawing on a dataset of roughly 400 examples from a wide range of ancient Greek texts, Pawlak establishes typical linguistic signals of sarcasm and examines its rhetorical uses in contexts such as Galatians, Romans, and Corinthians.
The book engages broader debates in Pauline scholarship, including questions of diatribe, interlocutor construction, and rhetorical strategies like the 'fool's speech.
' Methodologically, it updates older semantic approaches to irony by applying contemporary pragmatic theories of evaluation.
The monograph is published in the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph series by Cambridge University Press (2023).
Drawing on a dataset of roughly 400 examples from a wide range of ancient Greek texts, Pawlak establishes typical linguistic signals of sarcasm and examines its rhetorical uses in contexts such as Galatians, Romans, and Corinthians.
The book engages broader debates in Pauline scholarship, including questions of diatribe, interlocutor construction, and rhetorical strategies like the 'fool's speech.
' Methodologically, it updates older semantic approaches to irony by applying contemporary pragmatic theories of evaluation.
The monograph is published in the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph series by Cambridge University Press (2023).
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Matthew Pawlak, "Sarcasm in Paul's Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
