This landmark handbook is the first and only single volume to offer lucid and insightful examinations of Paul and his world. Each chapter explores a particular social convention, literary or rhetorical topos, social practice, or cultural mores of the world in which Paul and his audiences were at home. In addition, the sections use carefully chosen to demonstrate how particular features of Greco-Roman culture shed light on Paul's letters and on his readers' possible perception of them.
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This landmark handbook is the first and only single volume to offer lucid and insightful examinations of Paul and his world. Each chapter explores a particular social convention, literary or rhetorical topos, social practice, or cultural mores of the world in which Paul and his audiences were at home. In addition, the sections use carefully chosen to demonstrate how particular features of Greco-Roman culture shed light on Paul's letters and on his readers' possible perception of them.
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Good. 690p. Ex-library hardcover book in original binding. Label residue on spine, dustjacket clippings pasted to endpapers, and stamp on title page, but otherwise a clean, tight, unmarked book in very good condition.
