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Paul the Ancient Letter Writer

Author: Jeffrey A. D. Weima

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 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.

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.

Paul the Ancient Letter Writer

Author: Jeffrey A. D. Weima

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801097515

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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 the Letter-writer

Author: Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780814658451

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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

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780664250157

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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.

Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography

Author: Lutz Doering

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9783161522369

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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.

Paul and the Ancient Letter Form

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-03-22

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 9004190678

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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.

Paul and the Ancient Letter Form

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9004181636

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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.