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| Author | : Jeffrey A. D. Weima |
| Publisher | : Baker Academic |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2016-11-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1493405799 |
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.
| Author | : Hans-Josef Klauck |
| Publisher | : Baylor University Press |
| Total Pages | : 542 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 1932792406 |
"This volume places the New Testament letters squarely in the middle of all the important letter corpora of antiquity. Chapters cover the basic letter formula, papyrus and postal delivery, non-literary and diplomatic correspondence, Greek and Latin literary letters, epistolary theory, letters in early Judaism, and all the letters of the New Testament. Part I of each chapter surveys each corpus, followed by detailed exegetical examples in Part II. Comprehensive bibliographies and 54 exercises with answers suit this guide to student and scholar alike."--Publisher's website.
| Author | : Lutz Doering |
| Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
| Total Pages | : 628 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| 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.
| Author | : Ruth Morello |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2007-06-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191525359 |
The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri to imperial rescripts, New Testament Epistles, fictional or pseudepigraphical letters and a wealth of missives on almost every conceivable subject. They offer us a unique insight into ancient practices in the fields of politics, literature, philosophy, medicine and many other areas. This collection presents a series of case studies in ancient letters, asking how each letter writer manipulates the epistolary tradition, why he chose the letter form over any other, and what effect the publication of volumes of collected letters might have had upon a reader's engagement with epistolary works. This volume is the first of its kind on ancient letters in any language, and it brings together both well-established and promising young scholars currently working in the fields of ancient literature, history, philosophy and medicine to engage in a shared debate about this most adaptable and 'interdisciplinary' of genres.
| Author | : Patricia A. Rosenmeyer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2006-09-27 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1134451059 |
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 CLASSICAL GREEK LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 2 HELLENISTIC LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 3 Letters and prose fictions of the Second Sophistic -- chapter 4 THE EPISTOLARY NOVELLA -- chapter 5 PSEUDO-HISTORICAL LETTER COLLECTIONS OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC -- chapter 6 INVENTED CORRESPONDENCES, IMAGINARY VOICES.
| Author | : John Lee White |
| Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : |
With this collection of ancient Greek letters--written on papyrus and discovered in Egypt--John L. White provides a "comparative body of texts for studying the style of early Christian letters in the New Testament and the early church fathers." He seeks, as well, to contribute to an understanding of socio-political and economic factors within Greco-Roman Egypt and to illuminate broad environmental factors that help in understanding both Judaism and Christianity in the Greco-Roman period.
| 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.
| Author | : Paola Ceccarelli |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199675597 |
Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, the volume looks at documentary letters and traces the role of embedded letters in the texts of the ancient historians, in drama, and in the speeches of the orators.
| Author | : Roger Bagnall |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2015-07-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 047203622X |
The private letters of ancient women in Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest
| Author | : Stanley E. Porter |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2010-03-22 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004190678 |
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.
