신약 편지 문예적 분석 최근 40년 평가와 향후 연구를 위한 제언

Evaluation of Recent Forty-Year Literary Analysis of NT Letters and Suggestions for Further Studies -Focusing on Galatians-

In this article I survey and evaluate the results of recent forty-year literary analysis of letters in NT and try to make some suggestions for further studies. For this aim, I focus on important scholars and their works about the Galatians, such as J.L. White(literary analyst[1971, 1972 etc.]), H.D. Betz(classical rhetorical analyst[1974/75 and 1979]), R.N. Longenecker(a kind of eclecticist between epistolography and rhetorical approach[1990]) and D.F. Tolmie(new rhetorical analyst[2005]). Based on analysis of those works, I summarise their contributions and limitations as the following three points: First, recent forty-year literary analysis has developed by the later study complementing the limit of previous one. This fact shows this approach have internal and external interrelationship. Naturally, scholars can expect for the next step of literary analysis after Tolmie's study. Second, this approach has proceeded in the basis of literary features of the Galatians as an ancient letter or any relevant work. This means scholars have tried not to lose their objective position in their studies. Of course, at the point that their result are different, studies'objectivity can be doubted. However, we may remind that such variety came from various methods for analysis. Thus, the main point is not their variety, but how we can find a proper method to analyse letters in NT. Third, literary analysis can be evaluated as a textcentred approach. All scholars mentioned above started from their Greek text and analysed it. Additionally, they have shown their interest in the composition and arrangement of the text. This tendency has improved the understanding of content of a letter and its main theme(s). However, last literary analysis passed by an important factor, i.e. to define a literary genre of letters in NT. Thus, in next step, the literary analysis should not only pay attention to define a literary genre of letters in NT, but also analyse letters by considering such literary generic features.