Tolmie Philemon in Perspective

Interpreting a Pauline Letter
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-022174-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 169, 406 Seiten

Reihe: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

This book is dedicated entirely to the interpretation of Paul’s Letter to Philemon. The letter is approached from a wide variety of perspectives, thus yielding several new insights into its interpretation. In a first essay the tendencies in the research on the letter since 1980 are outlined. This is followed by essays devoted to the epistolary analysis and to a rhetorical-psychological interpretation of the letter; as well as an essay devoted to the rhetorical function of stylistic form in the letter. After this there are two essays devoted to situating the letter in its ancient context: one views the letter against the background of ancient legal and documentary sources and another one against the background of slavery in early Christianity. The next two essays focus on theological aspects, namely on the letter as ethical counterpart of Paul’s doctrine of justification and on the role that love plays in the letter. Three essays focus on ideological issues: the contextual interpretation of the letter in the US, a post-colonial reading of the letter and the letter’s legacy of hierarchy and obedience. The volume concludes with four essays on the way in which the letter was interpreted by the some of the Church Fathers: Origen, Jerome, Chrystostom, Augustine and Theodore of Mopsuestia.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tolmie, D. Francois

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Table of Contents;8
3;Abbreviations;10
4;Tendencies in the Research on the Letter to Philemon since 1980
;14
5;Paul's Persuasive Prose: An Epistolary Analysis of the Letter to Philemon
;42
6;Affects and Emotions in the Rhetoric of Pauls's Letter to Philemon: A Rhetorical-Psychological Interpretation
;74
7;"You Will Do Even More Than I Say": On the Rhetorical Function of Stylistic Form in the Letter to Philemon
;92
8;How to Deal with Onesimus? Pauls's Solution within the Frame of Ancient Legal and Documentary Sources
;126
9;The Letter ti Philemon in the Context of Slavery in Early Christianity
;156
10;The Letter to Philemon as Ethical Counterpart of Pauls's Doctrine of Justification
;182
11;Love in the Letter to Philemon
;194
12;Contextual Interpretation of the Letter to Philemon in the United States
;218
13;Paul, Power and Philemon. "Knowing Your Place": A Postcolonial Reading
;236
14;Hierarchy and Obedience: The Legacy of the Letter to Philemon
;264
15;The Reception of the Letter to Philemon in the Early Church: Origen; Jerome, Chrysostom and Augustine
;286
16;St. Jerome's Dissertation on the Letter to Philemon
;302
17;Honour Discourse in John Chrysostom's Exegesis of the Letter to Philemon
;330
18;Theodore of Mopsuestia on Paul's Letter to Philemon
;346
19;Indices;378
20;Collaborators;406

Über Autor(innen)

D. Francois Tolmie, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.