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Ancient Letters and the New Testament
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Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • General Bibliographies
  • List of Bibliographies
  • List of Exercises
  • Inroduction
  • 1. Foundations--Two Letters of Apion and Two Letters
  • of the ""Elder""
  • 2. Practical Realities--Paper and Postal System
  • 3. Nonliterary and Diplomatic Correspondence
  • 4. Poetry and Philosophy--Literary Letters
  • 5. Epistolary Theory and Rhetoric
  • 6. Letters in Early Judaism
  • 7. New Testament Letters I: Overview
  • 8. New Testament Letters II: Selected Texts
  • Epilogue
  • Answer Key
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Subjects

About the Author

Hans-Josef Klauck (Th. D. University of Munich) is Professor of New Testament at the University of Chicago

Reviews

"This splendid book is vintage Klauck. He offers a close reading of a wide range of ancient letters as well as brief discussion of ancient epistolary theory and of rhetoric. He strikes just the right balance between basic instruction and original insight." -Abraham J. Malherbe, Yale Divinity School "The ancient world - both Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian - was through and through a culture of letter writing. Klauck's already classic, German presentation and discussion from 1998 of the actual evidence for this claim is here made available in English in a thoroughly updated version that engages the best of both European and North American scholarship from the 20th and 21st centuries. The book is a must for anyone seriously concerned to understand ancient epistolary communication, including one-third of the New Testament." -Troels Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen "This is an outstanding book, since it combines basic syllabus material with advanced philological and exegetical scholarship. Its author displays a profound knowledge both of Early Christianity and of the Hellenistic-Roman world. A special asset consists of the numerous little-known examples of ancient letters which are presented in a most convenient and easily accessible way in this rich book." -Samuel Vollenweider, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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