Late Antique Letter Collections
Late Antique Letter Collections

Author: Cristiana Sogno

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 0520308417

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Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.

Collecting Early Christian Letters
Collecting Early Christian Letters

Author: Bronwen Neil

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1316241025

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Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman world to a more wide-ranging correspondence by bishops and monks, as well as emperors and Gothic kings. The contributors to this volume study individual collections from the first to sixth centuries CE, ranging from the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline letters through monastic letters from Egypt, bishops' letter collections and early papal collections compiled for various purposes. This is the first multi-authored study of New Testament and late antique letter collections, crossing the traditional divide between these disciplines by focusing on Latin, Greek, Coptic and Syriac epistolary sources. It draws together leading scholars in the field of late antique epistolography from Australasia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection
Gregory of Nazianzus's Letter Collection

Author: Gregory of Nazianzus

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0520304101

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Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as Gregory the Theologian, lived an illustrious life as an orator, poet, priest, and bishop. Until his death, he wrote scores of letters to friends and colleagues, clergy members and philosophers, teachers of rhetoric and literature, and high-ranking officials at the provincial and imperial levels, many of which are preserved in his self-designed letter collection. Here, for the first time in English, Bradley K. Storin has translated the complete collection, offering readers a fresh view on Gregory’s life, social and cultural engagement, leadership in the church, and literary talents. Accompanying the translation are an introduction, a prosopography, and annotations that situate Gregory’s letters in their biographical, literary, and historical contexts. This translation is an essential resource for scholars and students of late antiquity and early Christianity.

Paul and First-Century Letter Writing
Paul and First-Century Letter Writing

Author: E. Randolph Richards

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2004-10-22

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780830827886

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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.

Collection Management Handbook
Collection Management Handbook

Author: A. Michael Coleman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-04-26

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 047148394X

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You don’t have to be gifted to be a great credit collector. All you need is a desire to learn from the best.. . . and that’s the level of expertise this exhaustively researched volume puts right at your fingertips. The Collection Management Handbook puts you on the fast track to becoming a debt recovery dynamo. Drawing on actual cases from the collection industry’s top achievers, this expanded edition redefines collection methodology. Focusing on multiple avenues of strategic creditor recourse, it goes beyond yesterday’s dunning notices, showing you how to extract money from the most hard-to-reach nonpaying customers. Order your copy today!

A Letter to My Mom
A Letter to My Mom

Author: Lisa Erspamer

Publisher: Crown/Archetype

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0804139687

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Including letters from Melissa Rivers, Shania Twain, will.i.am, Christy Turlington, and Kristin Chenoweth Just in time for Mother's Day, the next book in the A Letter to My series (after A Letter to My Dog and A Letter to My Cat) takes on mothers, with celebrities and civilians writing letters of gratitude and admiration to the women who raised them, alongside gorgeous, intimate photos.