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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Abbreviations IX
4. Tendencies in the Research on the Letter to Philemon since 1980 1
5. Paul's Persuasive Prose: An Epistolary Analysis of the Letter to Philemon 29
6. Affects and Emotions in the Rhetoric of Pauls's Letter to Philemon: A Rhetorical-Psychological Interpretation 61
7. "You Will Do Even More Than I Say": On the Rhetorical Function of Stylistic Form in the Letter to Philemon 79
8. How to Deal with Onesimus? Pauls's Solution within the Frame of Ancient Legal and Documentary Sources 113
9. The Letter ti Philemon in the Context of Slavery in Early Christianity 143
10. The Letter to Philemon as Ethical Counterpart of Pauls's Doctrine of Justification 169
11. Love in the Letter to Philemon 181
12. Contextual Interpretation of the Letter to Philemon in the United States 205
13. Paul, Power and Philemon. "Knowing Your Place": A Postcolonial Reading 223
14. Hierarchy and Obedience: The Legacy of the Letter to Philemon 251
15. The Reception of the Letter to Philemon in the Early Church: Origen; Jerome, Chrysostom and Augustine 273
16. St. Jerome's Dissertation on the Letter to Philemon 289
17. Honour Discourse in John Chrysostom's Exegesis of the Letter to Philemon 317
18. Theodore of Mopsuestia on Paul's Letter to Philemon 333
19. Backmatter 365