Paul and First-Century Letter Writing

Paul and First-Century Letter Writing
Author: E. Randolph Richards
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830827886

Informed by the historical evidence and with a sharp eye for telltale clues in the Apostle Paul's letters, E. Randolph Richards takes us into his world and places us on the scene with Paul the letter writer offering a glimpse that overthrows our preconceptions and offers a new perspective on how this important portion of Christian Scripture came to be.

Paul and First-century Letter Writing

Paul and First-century Letter Writing
Author: Ernest Randolph Richards
Publisher: Apollos
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2005
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781844740666

In Paul's day, producing and delivering a letter was time-consuming and costly. Informed by historical evidence and features of the biblical texts, E. Randolph Richards examines the whole process and offers a new perspective on Paul the letter writer.

Paul and First-Century Letter Writing

Paul and First-Century Letter Writing
Author: E. Randolph Richards
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830827889

Informed by the historical evidence and with a sharp eye for telltale clues in the Apostle Paul's letters, E. Randolph Richards takes us into his world and places us on the scene with Paul the letter writer offering a glimpse that overthrows our preconceptions and offers a new perspective on how this important portion of Christian Scripture came to be.

Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography

Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography
Author: Lutz Doering
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783161522369

The author provides the most extensive analysis available of ancient Jewish letter writing from the Persian period until the early rabbinic literature. In addition, he demonstrates the significance of Jewish letters for the development of early Christian letter writing.

Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus

Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus
Author: Allan Millard
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567083487

Jesus never wrote a book. Most scholars assume that information about Jesus was preserved only orally up until the writing of the Gospels, allowing ample time for the stories of Jesus to grow and diversify. Alan Millard here argues that written reports about Jesus could have been made during his lifetime and that some among his audiences and followers may very well have kept notes, first-hand documents that the Evangelists could weave into their narratives.

Archaeology and the Letters of Paul

Archaeology and the Letters of Paul
Author: Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199699674

This study illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. It articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains.

Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Author: Stanley K. Stowers
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780664250157

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.

The First Letter to the Corinthians

The First Letter to the Corinthians
Author: Roy E Ciampa
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Total Pages: 952
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1789740142

This careful, sometimes innovative, mid-level commentary touches on an astonishingly wide swath of important, sensitive issues - theological and pastoral - that have urgent resonances in twenty-first-century life. This thorough commentary presents a coherent reading of 1 Corinthians, taking full account of its Old Testament and Jewish roots and demonstrating Paula's primary concern for the unity and purity of the church and the glory of God. Those who preach and teach 1 Corinthians will be grateful to Ciampa and Rosner for years to come and scholars will be challenged to see this letter with fresh eyes.