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Letter to Philemon: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The apostle Paul’s letter to his friend and fellow Christian Philemon, which focuses on the question of slavery, has long inspired debate. Onesimus, one of Philemon’s slaves, has left his master’s house and sought refuge with Paul, during which time he has converted to Christianity. In a letter to Philemon, Paul assures his friend that he is sending Onesimus back, but pleads for mercy on the...

(14) This Letter to Philemon is the shortest in the Pauline corpus, and yet it involves a story that is far bigger than it, because it stems from the imprisoned Apostle and concerns an issue of broad social concern in the ancient world in which he lived, the relation of a slave to his master. In order to understand the letter, one has to try to comprehend the story behind the writing. This narrative aspect of the letter and its relation
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