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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity SeriesPublisher: Williston : Society of Biblical Literature, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780884140924
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exploring PhilemonDDC classification:
  • 227/.8606
LOC classification:
  • BS2765.52 .J435 2015
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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 profound effect on an early Christian (Philemon) and on the church that met in his home. It demonstrates that many striking and subtle features work together to present a rhetorical argument that the new Christian society must be one of freedom, brotherhood, and partnership not just for the powerful, but for all. Features: An analysis of the visual imagery of the letterApplication of up-to-date rhetorical, sensory-aesthetic, and intertextual interpretive methodsUse of Social and cultural, ideological, and theological strategies.
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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.

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 profound effect on an early Christian (Philemon) and on the church that met in his home. It demonstrates that many striking and subtle features work together to present a rhetorical argument that the new Christian society must be one of freedom, brotherhood, and partnership not just for the powerful, but for all. Features: An analysis of the visual imagery of the letterApplication of up-to-date rhetorical, sensory-aesthetic, and intertextual interpretive methodsUse of Social and cultural, ideological, and theological strategies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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