The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans

An Epistolary and Rhetorical Analysis
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22805-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study

Challenging nearly two centuries of scholarship, this book offers the first close analysis of the apocryphal epistle to the Laodiceans. A near consensus in scholarship has emerged in which Laodiceans is dismissed as a random collection of phrases plucked from the undisputed Pauline letters, which lacks any organizational structure or theological sophistication. In The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans, Philip Tite offers a detailed analysis of this Latin letter by exploring the epistolary conventions utilized by the letter writer. What emerges is a pseudonymous text that is a carefully crafted paraenetic letter with a discernible rhetorical situation. By highlighting Laodiceans’ use of Paul as a literary culture hero, Tite situates the letter within second-century Christian identity formation.

Zielgruppe

Scholars in New Testament studies, Patristic traditions, ancient epistolography and especially those studying Pauline pseudonymity as well as historians of early Christianity interested in the appropriation of Paul in the second century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tite, Philip L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Epistolary Analysis I: The Prescript
3. Epistolary Analysis II: The Thanksgiving Period
4. Epistolary Analysis III: The Letter Body
5. Epistolary Analysis IV: The Paraenesis
6. Epistolary Analysis V: The Letter Closing
7. A Theological Synthesis of Laodiceans
8. Concluding Comments
Appendix 1: Text, Translation, and Epistolary Arrangement of Laodiceans
Appendix II: Dating the Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Tite, Philip L
Philip L. Tite, Ph.D. (2005) McGill University, is Affiliate Lecturer at the University of Washington. He is the author of several books, including Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse (Brill, 2009) and is co-editor of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion. His research focuses on the social and rhetorical aspects of early Christianity.