- The first stage: Writing a full story of the book in one sitting (40 days).
- The second stage: Revising and refining (14 days).
- The third stage: The focus is to embellish the manuscript by engaging more in scholarly literature and finalizing the bibliography (5-6 days).
The book begins with the following paragraph:
Though this book is not a verse-by-verse commentary on 2 Corinthians, it involves a new translation and new literary outlines with which we will examine the text critically and seek to forge contemporary implications. However, the difficulty of outlining and interpreting the letter lies in whether this letter is a single, unified letter or a composite document.
The book ends with the following:
“Jesus’s crucifixion by weakness” implies a double entendre that he did not give up on God’s righteousness that must be effective to all, and therefore that he could not escape death because of his persistence in God’s love for them. His crucifixion results from what he said and did concerning God’s radical love and justice. His death by weakness means his humiliation, torture, and crucifixion, and he could not overcome these because he was weak as the Messiah. But God makes him live. Jesus, as the last Adam, became “a life-giving spirit” (1 Cor 15:45).
2 Corinthians
Contextual Critical Commentary
(Cascade, forthcoming 2024)
Working Manuscript
Yung Suk Kim
Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Virginia Union University