Philemon (Readings - A New Biblical Commentary)

PHILEMON......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 9
Preface......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1. Form-Critical Analyses......Page 19
2. Linguistic and Rhetorical Analyses......Page 22
a. Chiastic Studies......Page 23
b. Rhetorical Analyses......Page 26
3. Sociological Investigations into the World of Paul the Apostle......Page 28
4. Pauline Ethics: Slavery as a Test Case......Page 29
5. Canonical Criticism: Philemon and the Formation of the Pauline Corpus......Page 30
1. Commentary......Page 34
2. A Question of Characters......Page 46
1. The Addressees—Philemon, Apphia and Archippus......Page 47
2. The Supporting Cast: Epaphras and Nympha......Page 49
3. The Principal Players: Paul, Philemon and Onesimus......Page 50
3. The Traditional Interpretation: The Case of the Runaway Slave......Page 53
1. Philemon: The Slave-Owner from Colossae......Page 55
2. Onesimus as Fugitivus: The Runaway Slave of Philemon?......Page 60
3. Onesimus as Christianos: The Convert of Paul......Page 61
4. Onesimus as Episkopos: The Bishop of Ephesus......Page 63
1. E.J. Goodspeed: Ephesians as a Covering-Letter to the Pauline Corpus......Page 68
2. John Knox: Re-thinking Onesimus and his Situation......Page 69
a. Archippus as the Owner of Onesimus......Page 70
b. The Nature of the Request Concerning Archippus......Page 71
c. Onesimus the Runaway Slave is Identified with the Bishop of Ephesus......Page 72
d. The Authenticity of Colossians......Page 73
5. New Challenges to the ‘Runaway Slave’ Hypothesis......Page 76
1. Onesimus as an Asylum-Seeker......Page 77
2. Onesimus as a Sent Slave from the Church in Colossae......Page 78
3. Onesimus as the Physical Brother of Philemon......Page 80
6. Philemon as a Morality Lesson: Christian Ethics and the Fight for Abolition......Page 85
1. Paul: Slave Collaborator or Apostle of Emancipation?......Page 89
2. Philemon and Onesimus in the Abolitionist Debate: Some Examples......Page 92
a. Thomas Parry’s Paul, Philemon, and Onesimus, or, Christian Brotherhood; Being a Practical Exposition of St Paul’s Epistle to Philemon, Applicable to the Present Crisis of West Indian Affairs (1834)......Page 100
b. Albert Barnes’s An Inquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery (1846)......Page 101
c. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Letters on the Epistle of Paul to Philemon (1845)......Page 103
d. Frederick Douglass’s Various Speeches and Addresses (1845, 1846, 1852, 1859)......Page 104
e. John Greenleaf Whittier’s A Sabbath Scene (1850)......Page 109
f. Stephen Foster’s The Brotherhood of Thieves, or, A True Picture of the American Church and Clergy (1843)......Page 112
h. Silas McKeen’s A Scriptural Argument in Favor of Withdrawing Fellowship From Churches and Ecclesiastical Bodies Tolerating Slaveholding among Them (1848)......Page 113
i. George B. Cheever’s God Against Slavery and the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It as a Sin against God (1857)......Page 114
j. George Bourne’s A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument (1845)......Page 115
k. Joseph Ruggles Wilson’s Mutual Relations of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible: A Discourse (1861)......Page 117
l. John Greg Fee’s An Anti-Slavery Manual, or, The Wrongs of American Slavery Exposed by the Light of the Bible and of Facts (1848)......Page 119
m. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851)......Page 120
1. Pauline Biographies......Page 122
2. Fictional Histories......Page 127
a. Scholem Asch’s The Apostle (1943)......Page 128
b. John Pollock’s The Apostle (1969)......Page 130
c. Edwin A. Abbott’s Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St Paul (1882)......Page 131
d. Charles Edward Corwin’s Onesimus, Christ’s Freedman: A Tale of the Pauline Epistles (1901)......Page 134
e. Lauren M. Hoyt’s Onesimus the Slave: A Romance of the Days of Nero (1915)......Page 137
f. James Alex Robertson’s The Hidden Romance of the New Testament (1920)......Page 139
g. Patricia St John’s Twice Freed (1970)......Page 141
h. Winthrop and Frances Neilson’s Letter to Philemon (1973)......Page 143
i. Lance Webb’s Onesimus (1980)......Page 145
j. Arthur Temple Cadoux’s Onesimus (1952)......Page 147
k. Elsie Parry’s Onesimus, The Church at Colossae (1963)......Page 151
l. E.G. Nightingale’s Brother Onesimus (1964)......Page 154
3. Contemporary Conversations with Paul......Page 158
8. Philemon at the Movies......Page 164
1. Life of St Paul (1938)......Page 167
2. The Runaway (2006)......Page 172
a. The story......Page 174
b. Some Remarks and Observations......Page 182
Postscript......Page 184
Bibliography......Page 189
Index of References......Page 202
Index of Names......Page 206