Philippians
Subtitle: let us rejoice in being conformed to Christ
By: by John Paul Heil.
Series: Society of Biblical Literature early Christianity and its literature -- 3
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781589834828; 9781589834835
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Philippians -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Description: "This volume employs a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and audience-oriented method to demonstrate how the implied audience of Philippians are persuaded and exhorted by the dynamic progression of the letter's chiastic structures to rejoice along with Paul and other believers in being conformed, with all of the broad implications of such conformity, to Christ. This reading assumes that Philippians is a single, unified letter written to be read and heard in a public setting as an oral performance substituting for the personal presence of the imprisoned Paul, and it proposes new chiastic structures for the entire letter as a key to understanding it." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.