Death, Discipleship, and Discourse Strategies: 2 Cor 5:1-10-once Again

New Testament scholarship commonly maintains with dogmatic tenacity that Paul anticipated the end of world history ("this age"; hz,.ha MlAOfhA) and the consummate inauguration of "the age to come" (MlAOfhA xBAha) within his own lifetime even though he proclaimed that the salvific realities of the coming Age proleptically had been inaugurated in the person and work of Christ, from whom NT eschatology derives its meaning and in whom there has arrived an interruption of and irruption into Jewish expectations. In fact, it is said,