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[Michael McAllister <mcallister.m AT att.net>]

I've been looking through Fee's commentary on Philippians in the NICNT
series, and here's some excepts from his Bibliography

Alexander, Loveday. "Hellenistic Letter-Forms and the Structure of
Philippians," JSNT 37 (1989) 87-101.

Malherbe, Abraham J. "Ancient Epistolary Theorists" (Society of
Biblical Literature Sources for Biblical Study 19; Atlanta, 1988)

(This contains text and translation of:-

- Pseudo-Demetrius, "Epistolary Types" (dated between 2nd C BC to 2nd C AD)

- Psuedo-Libanius, "Epistolary Styles" (dated between 4th C AD to 6th C AD)

)

Stowers, Stanley K. "Letter Writing in Greco-Roman
Antiquity" (Library of Early Christianity 5; Philadelphia,
1986)

Regards

Mike McAllister


At 05:09 AM 1/4/2003 -0500, Frich107 AT aol.com wrote:
> I am currently looking into the
> opening sections of each of Paul's letters, 
> particularly focussing in on his use of his apostleship in them. As I
> have 
> begun to do this, I have realised how little I know about letter writing
> conventions of the Greco-Roman world (if one can speak of such a thing).
> I 
> have my own copy of Stanley Stowers' helpful book on the subject, but
> have 
> little else. Does anyone have any suggestions of other recent works that
> I 
> could consult that might give me some ideas as to what I should be
> looking 
> out for in Paul's letters? I would also appreciate any bibliography that
> specifically relates Paul's letters to other relatively contemporary
> ones. I 
> did come across a very interesting reference in Witherington's commentary
> on 
> Philippians from the Irish Biblical Studies journal, but have had no
> success 
> in trying to track down a copy of it anywhere. It's only a relatively
> short 
> article, and so if anyone had access to it and a scanner I would be most
> appreciative. I can't put my hands on the title atm, but will send it to
> the 
> list a little later.
>
> Regards,
> Fred Rich.
>
> Ph.D. Student,
> Department of Biblical Studies,
> University of Sheffield,
> UK.
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