Philippians

by Paul A. Holloway Paul A. Holloway, Adela Yarbro Collins Yale University Divinity School (Editor)

Overview

Paul‘s letter to the Philippians offers treasures to the reader--and historical and theological puzzles as well. Paul A. Holloway treats the letter as a literary unity and a letter of consolation, according to Greek and Roman understandings of that genre, written probably in Rome and thus the latest of Paul‘s letters to come down to us. Adapting the methodology of what he calls a new history of religions perspective, Holloway attends carefully to the religious topoi of Philippians, especially the metamorphic myth in chapter 2, and draws significant conclusions about Paul‘s personalism and "mysticism." With succinct and judicious treatments of pertinent exegetical and theological issues throughout, Holloway draws richly on Jewish, Greek, and Roman comparative material to present a complex understanding of the apostle as a Hellenized and Romanized Jew.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506438436
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	11/01/2017
Series:	Hermeneia
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Paul A. Holloway is University Professor of Classics and Ancient Christianity at Sewanee: The University of the South, the author of Coping with Prejudice: 1 Peter in Social Psychological Perspective (2009) and Consolation in Philippians (2001), and the editor of Women and Gender in Ancient Religions (2010).



Adela Yarbro Collins is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. She has written numerous books on ancient Judaism and Christianity.

Table of Contents

Prefatory Remarks on Ancient Consolation
Literary Integrity of Canonical Philippians
Place and Date of Writing
“Rhetorical Situation”
Genre: Philippians as a Letter of Consolation
The Disposition of the Letter
Key Religious Topoi
Excursus: σῶμα πνευματικόν