Paul's letter to the Philippians : a socio-rhetorical commentary /
"Paul's short, affectionate letter to the Philippians has been much belabored of late by biblical scholars keen to analyze it in light of Greco-Roman letter-writing conventions. Yet Ben Witherington argues that Philippians shouldn't be read as a letter at all but, rather, as a masterf...
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Grand Rapids, Mich. :
Eerdmans,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Preliminary considerations
- Provenance
- Consistency and change
- Partition theories
- A letter of friendship or a family letter
- Rhetoric
- Social analysis: dead ends and promising pathways
- The commentary
- Epistolary prescript (1:1-2) A closer look: Paul's right-hand man Timothy
- Exordium: Prayers and previews (1:3-11) A closer look: Joy, the elixir of faith and effervescence of hope
- Bridging the horizons
- Narratio: Proclamation's progress (1:12-26) A closer look: Imitation, the highest form of education
- A closer look: Honor, shame, and apostolic life
- Bridging the horizons
- Propositio: Lives worthy of the word (1:27-30)
- Bridging the horizons
- Probatio: Four positive appeals (2:1--4:3)
- The prime paradigm: Christ (2:1-18)
- A closer look: E.A. Judge and the social world of early Christianity
- A closer look: The Christ hymn in recent discussion
- Bridging the horizons
- The Paradigm's Partners (2:19-30)
- Bridging the horizons
- Paul and the dogs (3:1--4.1)
- A closer look: Synkrisis when there Is no crisis
- A closer look: Social-scientific criticism--will meeks Inherit the earth?
- Bridging the horizons
- An apeal to the leaders (4:2-3)
- Peroratio: The value of virtue and the joy of Jesus (4:4-9)
- A closer look: Paul among the ancient moralists
- Bridging the horizons
- A postscript: "On giving and receiving" (4:10-20)
- Final greetings and grace (4.21-23)
- A closer look: Caesar's household and the household of faith
- Bridging the horizons.