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

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1. Metaphor as Rhetorical Strategy........1 Maternal Imagery in Paul`s Letters ......2 Cognitive metaphor Theory ..........8 Metaphor and Rhetoric ..........21 2. Establishing the text, Grammar, and translation of 1 Thessalonians 2...........27 Issues in I Thessalonians 2: 5-8................47 3. Historical and Social Backgrounds of the Infant and Nurse Metaphors...................61 Historical and Social Background of the Metaphor .........62 Historical and Social Background of the Thessalonian Community ......80 4. Literary background of the Infant and Nurse Metaphors..............99 Infant and Innocence .........99 Nurses and nursing mothers .......103 The leader as Nurse .......108 5. Paul as Infant and Nursing mother among the Thessalonians ...123 Analysis of the Infant Metaphor.......124 Analysis of the nurse Metaphor .....132 6. The metaphors, the letters and the paul the Apostle .........155 The metaphors, I thessalonians and paul`s Letters ......155 Maternal metaphors and paul the Apostles .........161