Philemon: imagination, labor, and love
Introduction : On reading lost letters -- A quick overview of Paul's letter to Philemon -- I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus -- Rethinking Onesimus and Philemon -- Labor and love: an affect reading of Philemon -- Conclusion : Letters lost in the mail.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, England
Bloomsbury International Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Ascough, Richard S., 1962-, 1 & 2 Thessalonians] (2020) (Oegema, Gerbern S., 1958 -)
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| Series/Journal: | T&T Clark study guides to the New Testament
volume 5 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Philemon
Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Biblical studies & exegesis B Electronic books |
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| Summary: | Introduction : On reading lost letters -- A quick overview of Paul's letter to Philemon -- I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus -- Rethinking Onesimus and Philemon -- Labor and love: an affect reading of Philemon -- Conclusion : Letters lost in the mail. 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, Paul's 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 0567674983 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9780567674982 |