Paul the Ancient Letter Writer

Author: Jeffrey A. D. Weima
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1493405799
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
This clear and user-friendly introduction to the interpretive method called "epistolary analysis" shows how focusing on the form and function of Paul's letters yields valuable insights into the apostle's purpose and meaning. The author helps readers interpret Paul's letters properly by paying close attention to the apostle's use of ancient letter-writing conventions. Paul is an extremely skilled letter writer who deliberately adapts or expands traditional epistolary forms so that his persuasive purposes are enhanced. This is an ideal supplemental textbook for courses on Paul or the New Testament. It contains numerous analyses of key Pauline texts, including a final chapter analyzing the apostle's Letter to Philemon as a "test case" to demonstrate the benefits of this interpretive approach.

Paul and the Ancient Letter Form

Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004181636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Throughout the last century, there has been continuous study of Paul as a writer of letters. Although this fact was acknowledged by previous generations of scholars, it was during the twentieth century that the study of ancient letter-writing practices came to the fore and began to be applied to the study of the letters of the New Testament. This volume seeks to advance the discussion of Paul's relationship to Greek epistolary traditions by evaluating the nature of ancient letters as well as the individual letter components. These features are evaluated alongside Paul's letters to better understand Paul's use and adaptations of these traditions in order to meet his communicative needs.

Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Author: Stanley K. Stowers
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664250157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Making use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.

An Introduction to the New Testament

Author: David A. deSilva
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830874003
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 898

Book Description
This comprehensive New Testament introduction not only outlines historical, social, cultural, and rhetorical contexts, but it also points students preparing for ministry to relevant facets of biblical interpretation. Brimming with maps, photos, points of interest, and aids to learning, this beautiful, full-color second edition of an established textbook is the first choice for those who want to integrate scholarship and ministry.

Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament

Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567709884
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
This volume examines and outlines a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to New Testament Greek. The book reflects upon how SFL has grown as a field since it was first introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Stanley E. Porter in the 1980s. Porter and Matthew Brook O'Donnell first introduce basic concepts regarding discourse analysis and the major approaches towards it within New Testament studies. They then provide a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction, beginning with an introduction to the architecture of language within SFL, before exploring several individual elements within it. By focusing upon these individual components in particular, theme and information structure, markedness and prominence, and coherence and cohesive harmony Porter and O'Donnell introduce and exemplify the major resources of the textual metafunction.

History, Biography, and the Genre of Luke-Acts

Author: Andrew W. Pitts
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004406549
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
Most studies of the genre of Luke-Acts underestimate the role of literary divergence in genre analysis. This monograph will show how attention to literary divergence may bring resolution to the increasingly complex discussions of the genre(s) of Luke-Acts.

Galatians

Author: Craig S. Keener
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426816
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
Drawing on a range of ancient background, this commentary makes Galatians easier to understand today.

Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature

Author: Owen Hodkinson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004253033
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Epistolary Narratives presents detailed literary readings of a wide range of Greek literary letter collections across a range of genres, cultural backgrounds, and time periods, leading collectively towards a better appreciation of Greek epistolary collections as a unique literary phenomenon.

Paul the Letter-writer

Author: Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814658451
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
How did Paul use his secretaries? Did he rely on co-authors? Did his rhetorical education affect the way he organised his material? This book confronts these questions on the basis of extensive quotations from classical Greek and Latin authors. A synoptic survey of the beginnings and ends of the letters brings out the extent to which Paul both used and adapted current epistolary conventions. The intention of the book is to humanize the Pauline letters and make their complex theology less daunting. (Adapted from back cover).

The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans

Author: Philip L. Tite
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004228055
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
Challenging nearly two centuries of scholarship, this book offers a close analysis of Laodiceans. Philip Tite offers a detailed study of this Latin letter by exploring the epistolary conventions utilized by the letter writer.