Ancient Letters and the New Testament: A Guide to Context and ExegesisBaylor University Press, 2006 - 504 Seiten This volume places the New Testament letters squarely in the middle of all the important letter corpora of antiquity. Chapters cover the basic letter formula, papyrus and postal delivery, non-literary and diplomatic correspondence, Greek and Latin literary letters, epistolary theory, letters in early Judaism, and all the letters of the New Testament. Part I of each chapter surveys each corpus, followed by detailed exegetical examples in Part II. Comprehensive bibliographies and 54 exercises with answers suit this guide to student and scholar alike. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Foundations Two Letters of Apion and Two Letters of the Elder | 9 |
Practical Realities Paper and Postal Systems | 43 |
Nonliterary and Diplomatic Correspondence | 67 |
Poetry and PhilosophyLiterary Letters | 103 |
Epistolary and Rhetorical Theory | 183 |
Letters in Early Judaism | 229 |
New Testament Letters I Overview | 299 |
New Testament Letters II Selected Texts | 355 |
Epilogue | 435 |
Answer Key | 445 |
Index of Ancient Sources | 471 |
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495 | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alexandrians already Ancient Letters Antike Antiochus III Apion apostle Aramaic authenticity Bar Kokhba Baruch Bibliography Brief brothers caivrein century BCE chap Chion of Heraclea Christ Christian church Cicero Claudius Colossians Commentary Corinthians Cynic D. E. Aune Demetrius Dictionary Bib Diogenes Laertius emperor Ephesians Epicurus Epistles epistolary Epistolography Epistulae Esdras example Exercise exhortation exordium father formula Gaius Galatians genre God’s Göttingen Greek greeting Hebrews Hercher idem Jeremiah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews John Josephus Jude king Latin Leiden letter body letter closing letter writing Letters Bib literary literature Lord Maccabees Malherbe mentioned narratio NRSV P.Oxy papyrus Parousia Paul Paul’s Pauline letters peroratio Peter Philemon Philippians Philostratus Pliny prayer prescript proem pseudepigraphy Pseudo-Demetrius rhetorical analysis Roman scribe sender Seneca speech Studien style temple Testament thanksgiving Thessalonians Timothy tion tradition trans translation Tübingen word written
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