Paul's Large Letters (Hardcover)

Steve Reece

ISBN 10: 0567669068 / ISBN 13: 9780567669063

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Edinburgh, 2016

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Hardcover. At the end of several of his letters the apostle Paul claims to be penning a summary and farewell greeting in his own hand: 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Philemon, cf. Colossians, 2 Thessalonians. Pauls claims raise some interesting questions about his letter-writing practices. Did he write any complete letters himself, or did he always dictate to a scribe? How much did his scribes contribute to the composition of his letters? Did Paul make the effort to proofread and correct what he had dictated? What was the purpose of Paul's autographic subscriptions? What was Paul's purpose in calling attention to their autographic nature? Why did Paul write in large letters in the subscription of his letter to the Galatians? Why did he call attention to this peculiarity of his handwriting?A good source of answers to these questions can be found among the primary documents that have survived from around the time of Paul, a large number of which have been discovered over the past two centuries and in fact continue to be discovered to this day. From around the time of Paul there are extant several dozen letters from the caves and refuges in the desert of eastern Judaea (in Hebrew, Aramaic, Nabataean, Greek, and Latin), several hundred from the remains of a Roman military camp in Vindolanda in northern England (in Latin), and several thousand from the sands of Middle and Upper Egypt (in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian Demotic). Reece has examined almost all these documents, many of them unpublished and rarely read, with special attention to their handwriting styles, in order to shed some light on these technical aspects of Paul's letter-writing conventions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Paul's Large Letters (Hardcover)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Edinburgh
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0567669068
• ISBN 13: 9780567669063
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

An analysis of what Paul's autographs at the closing of several of his letters reveal about the mechanics of his letter-writing, with reference to multiple images of the letters.

Informazioni sull?autore

Steve Reece is Professor of Classical Languages and Patricia Boldt Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, U.S.A.