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: 9004190678
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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.

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.

Opening Paul's Letters

Author: Patrick Gray
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 0801039223
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
An experienced teacher provides an accessible textbook on the Pauline letters that orients beginning students to the genre in which Paul writes.

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).

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.

Listening to the Text

Author: John D. Harvey
Publisher: Apollos
ISBN: 9780851114644
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description
Enables readers to better understand the structure and meaning of Paul's letters by examining first-century speaking styles and showing how Paul used them in his writings.

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.

A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004292128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 998

Book Description
A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad spectrum of topics from postal transmission to letter calligraphy, epistolary networks to genre questions. It introduces dozens of letters, often the first translations into English, and thus makes epistolary history palpable in all its vitality and diversity: letters written by men and women from all walks of life to friends and lovers, princes and kings, scholars and monks, seniors and juniors, family members and neighbors, potential patrons, newspaper editors, and many more. With contributions by: Pablo Ariel Blitstein, R. Joe Cutter, Alexei Ditter, Ronald Egan, Imre Galambos, Natascha Gentz, Enno Giele, Natasha Heller, David R. Knechtges, Paul W. Kroll, Jie Li, Y. Edmund Lien, Bonnie S. McDougall, Amy McNair, David Pattinson, Zeb Raft, Antje Richter, Anna M. Shields, Suyoung Son, Janet Theiss, Xiaofei Tian, Lik Hang Tsui, Matthew Wells, Ellen Widmer, and Suzanne E. Wright.

Handbook on Acts and Paul's Letters (Handbooks on the New Testament)

Author: Thomas R. Schreiner
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 149341982X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 519

Book Description
Leading biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner provides an easy-to-navigate resource for studying and understanding the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Letters. This accessibly written volume summarizes the content of each major section of the biblical text to help readers quickly grasp the sense of particular passages. This is the first volume in the Handbooks on the New Testament series, which is modeled after Baker Academic's successful Old Testament handbook series. Series volumes are neither introductions nor commentaries, as they focus primarily on the content of the biblical books without getting bogged down in historical-critical questions or detailed verse-by-verse exegesis. The series will contain three volumes that span the entirety of the New Testament, with future volumes covering the Gospels and Hebrews through Revelation. Written with classroom utility and pastoral application in mind, these books will appeal to students, pastors, and laypeople alike.