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Paul's Large Letters

Light from Ancient Epistolary Conventions on Paul's Autographic Subscription in His Letter to the Galatians

by Steve Reece

  • Hardback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

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Reece addresses the multiple queries raised around Paul's letter-writing through his analysis of the primary documents that have survived from around the time of Paul. 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. Paul's claims raise some interesting questions about his letter-writing practices, such as: 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? 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 large number of the primary documents 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 Reece has examined almost all these documents, many of them unpublished and rarely read, with special attention to their handwriting styles, in order to shed some light on these technical aspects of Paul's letter-writing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.
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  • Author

    Steve Reece

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    December 2016

  • Weight

    636g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567669063

  • ISBN-10

    0567669068

  • Eden Code

    4450426

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