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Bibliography: New Testament Letters
On the Production of Letters in the Ancient World
Aune, David E. The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. LEC. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
Klauck, Hans-Josef. Ancient Letters and the New Testament: A Guide to Context and Exegesis. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2006.
Malherbe, Abraham J. Ancient Epistolary Theorists. SBLSBS 19. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1973. Especially helpful on the different types of letters and their distinctive functions.
Murphy-O’Connor, Jerome. Paul the Letter-Writer: His World, His Options, His Skills. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1995. Covers the technical aspects of how letters were written and delivered.
Richards, E. Randolph. Paul and First-Century Letter-Writing: Secretaries, Composition and Collection. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.
———. The Secretary in the Letters of Paul. WUNT 2/42. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1991. A study on the role of the amanuensis.
Stowers, Stanley K. Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity. LEC. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.
On Different Parts of a Letter
Overview of Ancient and Early Christian Letters
Aune, David E. “Letters in the Ancient World” and “Early Christian Letters and Homilies.” In The New Testament in Its Literary Environment, 158–225. LEC. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1987.
The Thanksgiving
O’Brien, Peter T. Introductory Thanksgivings in the Letters of Paul. NovTSup 49. Leiden: Brill, 1977.
Schubert, Paul. Form and Function of the Pauline Thanksgivings. BZNW 20. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1939.
The Body
White, John Lee. The Form and Function of the Body of the Greek Letter. SBLDS 2. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1972.
The Closing
Weima, Jeffrey A. D. Neglected Endings: The Significance of the Pauline Letter Closings. JSNTSup 101. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994.
Prayers
Wiles, Gordon P. Paul’s Intercessory Prayers: The Significance of the Intercessory Prayer Passages in the Letters of Paul. SNTSMS 24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
On the Question of Pseudepigraphy
Carson, Don. “Pseudonymity and Pseudepigraphy.” In The Dictionary of New Testament Background, edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter, 856–64. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
Charlesworth, James C. “Pseudonymity and Pseudepigraphy.” In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, edited by David Noel Freedman, 5:540–41. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
deSilva, David A. “Pseudepigraphy and the New Testament Canon.” In Introduction to the New Testament, 685–89. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.
Donelson, Lewis R. Pseudepigraphy and Ethical Argument in the Pastoral Epistles. HUT 22. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1986.
Dunn, James D. G. “Pseudonymity.” In Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Development, edited by Ralph P. Martin and Peter H. Davids, 977–84. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997.
Meade, David G. Pseudonymity and Canon: An Investigation into the Relationship of Authorship and Authority in Jewish and Earliest Christian Tradition. WUNT 39. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1986.
Wilder, Terry L. Pseudonymity, the New Testament, and Deception: An Inquiry into Intention and Reception. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004.