The apocryphal epistle to the Laodiceans : an epistolary and rhetorical analysis / / by Philip L. Tite.

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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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (172 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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.