The apocryphal epistle to the Laodiceans : an epistolary and rhetorical analysis /
Challenging nearly two centuries of scholarship, this book offers the first close analysis of the apocryphal epistle to the Laodiceans. A near consensus in scholarship has emerged in which Laodiceans is dismissed as a random collection of phrases plucked from the undisputed Pauline letters, which la...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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Texts and Editions for New Testament Study
7.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248649.
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Call Number: BS2900.L36 T58 2012
| Summary: | Challenging nearly two centuries of scholarship, this book offers the first close analysis of the apocryphal epistle to the Laodiceans. A near consensus in scholarship has emerged in which Laodiceans is dismissed as a random collection of phrases plucked from the undisputed Pauline letters, which lacks any organizational structure or theological sophistication. In The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans, Philip Tite offers a detailed analysis of this Latin letter by exploring the epistolary conventions utilized by the letter writer. What emerges is a pseudonymous text that is a carefully crafted paraenetic letter with a discernible rhetorical situation. By highlighting Laodiceans' use of Paul as a literary culture hero, Tite situates the letter within second-century Christian identity formation. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 158 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-146) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004231627 |
| ISSN: | 1574-7085 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |