Exploring Philemon : Freedom, Brotherhood, and Partnership in the New Society.

A new, sociorhetorical interpretation of the Letter to Philemon Exploring Philemon shows how this letter entered the world of the ancient Mediterranean and the early church with a dramatic and powerful rhetorical force by analyzing the range of textures interwoven with each other to produce a profou...

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Main Author: Jeal, Roy R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Williston : Society of Biblical Literature, 2015
Series:Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity Ser.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Editorial Foreword
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Editors' Note
  • Introduction
  • Rhetography
  • Translation
  • Textural Commentary
  • Repetitive Texture
  • The Opening, Philemon 1-7
  • The Middle, Philemon 8-20
  • The Closing, Philemon 21-25
  • Ideological Texture
  • Rhetorical Force as Emergent Discourse
  • Bibliography
  • Ancient Sources Index
  • Modern Authors Index
  • Subject Index.