Philemon: An Introduction and Study Guide: Imagination, Labor and Love (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the New Testament) - Softcover
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This guide explores and summarizes scholarship on Philemon, acquainting beginning students with what has been said about Philemon, and equipping them to understand the larger debates and conversations that surround it. It explores how different initial scholarly assumptions result in different interpretations and meanings; these meanings always have ethical implications. Reading Philemon challenges us to rethink the process of commentary and the communities interpretation creates.
Though only one chapter long, Pauls Letter to Philemon has generated a remarkable amount of commentary and scholarship over the centuries, figuring in debates over textual reconstruction, the formation of biblical canon, the culture of ancient Rome, Greek language and its translation, and the role of the Bible in Western politics and economics. The focus of this short letter is labor, love and captivity. Tradition since Chrysostom has argued the letter is an appeal to Philemon on behalf of a fugitive slave Onesimus, now a convert to Christianity. Yet this interpretation depends upon several assumptions and reconstructions. Other equally plausible contexts could be -- and have been -- argued.
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Robert Paul Seesengood (Ph.D., Drew University) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Albright College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Competing Identities: The Athlete and Gladiator in Early Christianity (Continuum, 2007).
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Paperback. Condition: New. Paul's briefest extant writing, Philemon is a personal letter which aims to reunite two estranged followers of the apostle - Philemon and Onesimus - through the teachings of Jesus. Offering insights into the Graeco-Roman world and especially slavery, the epistle has been the subject of much scholarly interpretation and debate. Seesengood's study introduces the text, characters and issues of Philemon and examines the various historical interpretations of the text. From T&T Clark's series of Study Guides to the New Testament. Seller Inventory # 537844
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Über den AutorRobert SeesengoodInhaltsverzeichnisAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter One: A Quick Overview of Paul s Letter to PhilemonChapter Two: I Appeal to You for My Child, Onesimus Chapter Thr. Seller Inventory # 594782897
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