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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Main Author: Tite, Philip L., 1969-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: 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

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Epistolary Analysis I: The Prescript
  • III. Epistolary Analysis II: The Thanksgiving Period
  • IV. Epistolary Analysis III: The Letter Body
  • V. Epistolary Analysis IV: The Paraenesis
  • VI. Epistolary Analysis V: The Letter Closing
  • VII. A Theological Synthesis of Laodiceans
  • VIII. Concluding Comments
  • Appendix I: Text, Translation, and Epistolary Arrangement of Laodiceans
  • Appendix II: Dating the Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans
  • Bibliography
  • Ancient Texts Index
  • Modern Author Index
  • Subject Index.