Paul and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation: An Exegetical Investigation of the Language and Composition of 1 Corinthians (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie)

New light is cast on the genre, function, and composition of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Mitchell thoroughly documents her argument that First Corinthians was a single letter, not a combination of fragments, whose aim was to persuade the Corinthian Christian community to become unified.