Philemon in perspective : interpreting a Pauline letter / [edited by] D. Francois Tolmie.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Colloquium on the New Testament, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Tolmie, D. F. (D. Francois)

Conference Name:

International Colloquium on the New Testament (5th : 2008 : University of the Free State)

International Colloquium on the New Testament

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der alteren Kirche ; Beiheft 169.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der alteren Kirche, 0171-6441 ; Bd. 169

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Philemon--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Bible.

Rhetoric in the Bible--Congresses.

Rhetoric in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is dedicated entirely to the interpretation of Paul's Letter to Philemon. The letter is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, thus yielding several new insights into its interpretation. In a first essay the tendencies in the research on the letter since 1980 are outlined. This is followed by essays devoted to the epistolary analysis and to a rhetorical-psychological interpretation of the letter; as well as an essay devoted to the rhetorical function of stylistic form in the letter. After this there are two essays devoted to situating the letter in its ancient context: one views the letter against the background of ancient legal and documentary sources and another one against the background of slavery in early Christianity. The next two essays focus on theological aspects, namely on the letter as ethical counterpart of Paul's doctrine of justification and on the role that love plays in the letter. Three essays focus on ideological issues: the contextual interpretation of the letter in the US, a post-colonial reading of the letter and the letter's legacy of hierarchy and obedience. The volume concludes with four essays on the way in which the letter was interpreted by the some of the Church Fathers: Origen, Jerome, Chrystostom, Augustine and Theodore of Mopsuestia.

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 Justification

Love 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. Jerome's Dissertation on the Letter to Philemon

Honour Discourse in John Chrysostom's Exegesis of the Letter to Philemon

Theodore of Mopsuestia on Paul's Letter to Philemon

Backmatter

Notes:

Papers presented at the 5th International Colloquium on the New Testament, held Aug. 12-20, 2008, at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612706561

9781282706569

128270656X

9783110221749

3110221748

OCLC:

654029426