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Author Francois, Tolmie D

Title Philemon in Perspective : Interpreting a Pauline Letter
Edition 2nd ed
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (406 pages)
Series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 0171-6441 ; Bd. 169
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ; Beiheft 169.
Contents Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Tendencies in the Research on the Letter to Philemon since 1980; Paul's Persuasive Prose: An Epistolary Analysis of the Letter to Philemon; Affects and Emotions in the Rhetoric of Pauls's Letter to Philemon: A Rhetorical-Psychological Interpretation; "You Will Do Even More Than I Say": On the Rhetorical Function of Stylistic Form in the Letter to Philemon; How to Deal with Onesimus? Pauls's Solution within the Frame of Ancient Legal and Documentary Sources; The Letter ti Philemon in the Context of Slavery in Early Christianity
The Letter to Philemon as Ethical Counterpart of Pauls's Doctrine of JustificationLove in the Letter to Philemon; Contextual Interpretation of the Letter to Philemon in the United States; Paul, Power and Philemon. "Knowing Your Place": A Postcolonial Reading; Hierarchy and Obedience: The Legacy of the Letter to Philemon; The Reception of the Letter to Philemon in the Early Church: Origen; Jerome, Chrysostom and Augustine; St. J
Summary All the essays in this book are devoted to the interpretation of Pauls Letter to Philemon. The most important characteristic of the book is the wide range of perspectives from which this brief letter of Paul is interpreted. The following issues receive attention: tendencies in the interpretation of the letter since 1980, epistolography, rhetoric, style, ancient legal and documentary sources, slavery in early Christianity, contextual interpretation, post-colonialism, the letters legacy of hierarchy and obedience and the reception of the letter by Church Fathers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Philemon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Bible. Philemon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Congresses
Bible. Philemon fast
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110221749
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9783110221732
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