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In this volume, Seth M. Ehorn takes the uncommon stance that slavery is not the central issue of Philemon; instead, God’s providential work is. According to Ehorn, this is seen in the themes that Paul addresses throughout his letter: reconciliation, forgiveness, love, and faithfulness—attributes that Christ exhibited. Ehorn adopts the view that Paul wrote to his friend, Philemon, on behalf of...

Despite being the shortest of the Pauline corpus, the letter known as ΠΡΟΣ ΠΙΛΗΜΟΝΑ (“to Philemon”) has captivated the imagination of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Pauline scholarship. Its brevity makes it the perfect candidate for the application of various methods to the letter wholesale—for example, discourse analysis,1 rhetorical analysis,2 epistolary analysis,3 and sociological analysis.4 A steady stream of commentaries has been produced ranging, for instance, from
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