Phil. 2:6-An Example of Anaphora?

Mark Goodacre M.S.GOODACRE at bham.ac.uk
Thu Jun 3 08:28:43 EDT 1999


I would like to recommend a recent book on this topic:

Ralph P. Martin & Brian J. Dodd (eds.), _Where Christology Began: Essays on 
Philippians 2_ (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998)

Every single essay (bar one) in the volume deal with Phil. 2.6-11.  My head was 
spinning by the end of it -- this is definitely not a book to be read in one 
sitting.  It is valuable, though.  It features a defence by Jimmy Dunn of his 
Adamic, non-pre-existence reading of this piece (cf. Carl's comments).  It also 
features much criticism of Dunn's reading, most explicitly by Richard Bauckham 
in "The Worship of Jesus in Philippians 2.9-11", the best essay in the book.  
He thinks that the hymn exhibits an "eschatological monotheism" that "took 
christological form in the earliest Christian reflection on the exaltation of 
Jesus" (p. 136).

There is lots of discussion in the various essays re. the meaning of hARPAGMOS 
and the specific clause mentioned.  Indeed Gerald Hawthorne has an essay in the 
book in which he defends the reading mentioned by Edgar Foster.

The book will be a most useful one for anyone researching Phil. 2.6-11 -- 
strongly recommended.

Mark
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