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

by Jennifer Houston McNeel (Author)

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.