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Bibliography: Philemon

Overview

Barclay, John M. G. Colossians and Philemon. NTG. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

Callahan, Allen Dwight. Embassy of Onesimus: The Letter of Paul to Philemon. NTC. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.

Donfried, Karl P., and I. Howard Marshall. The Theology of the Shorter Pauline Letters. NTT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Kuschel, H. J. Philippians, Colossians, Philemon. Rev. ed. People’s Bible Commentary. St. Louis: Concordia, 2005.

Osiek, Carolyn. Philippians and Philemon. ANTC. Nashville: Abingdon, 2000.

Thompson, Marianne Meye. Colossians and Philemon. THNTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.

Thurston, Bonnie B., and Judith Ryan. Philippians and Philemon. SP. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005.

Wright, Tom. Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.

Critical Commentaries

Barth, Markus, and Helmut Blanke. The Letter to Philemon. ECC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Bruce, F. F. Colossians, Philemon, Ephesians. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984.

Dunn, James D. G. The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon: A Commentary on the Greek Text. NIGTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Letter to Philemon. AB 34C. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

Koenig, John. Philippians, Philemon. ACNT. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1985.

Lohse, Eduard. Colossians and Philemon. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971.

Martin, Ralph P. Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon. Interpretation. Louisville: John Knox, 1992.

O’Brien, Peter T. Colossians, Philemon. WBC 44. Waco: Word, 1982.

Thurston, Bonnie B., and Judith Ryan. Philippians and Philemon. SP. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2005.

Wilson, Robert. Colossians and Philemon. ICC. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Witherington, Ben, III. The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

On the “Story of Onesimus, Paul, and Philemon” That Lies behind the Letter

Petersen, Norman R. Rediscovering Paul: Philemon and the Sociology of Paul’s Narrative World. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

The Prison Setting

Caird, G. B. Paul’s Letters from Prison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Cassidy, Richard J. Paul in Chains: Roman Imprisonment and the Letters of St. Paul. New York: Herder & Herder, 2001.

Houlden, J. L. Paul’s Letters from Prison. London: SCM, 1977.

Rapske, Brian. The Book of Acts and Paul in Roman Custody. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

Wansink, Craig S. Chained in Christ: The Experience and Rhetoric of Paul’s Imprisonments. JSNTSup 130. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

On Slavery in the Roman World

Overview

Bradley, K. R. Slavery and Society at Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Callahan, Allen Dwight, Richard A. Horsley, and Abraham Smith, eds. Slavery in Text and Interpretation. Semeia 83/84. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2001.

Glancy, Jennifer A. Slavery in Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Harrill, J. Albert. The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity. HUT 32. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1995.

———. Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006.

Westermann, William L. The Slave System of Greek and Roman Antiquity. Philadelphia: American Philosophy Society, 1955.

Studies Dealing with Slavery as Pertains to 1 Corinthians 7:17–24

Bartchy, S. S. Mallon Chrēsai: First-Century Slavery and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7:21. SBLDS 11. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1973.

Braxton, Brad Ronnell. The Tyranny of Resolution: 1 Corinthians 7:17–24. SBLDS 181. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2000.

On the Persuasive Strategy of Paul

Petersen, Norman R. Rediscovering Paul: Philemon and the Sociology of Paul’s Narrative World. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

On the Possibility of Onesimus Becoming Bishop of Ephesus

Knox, John. Philemon among the Letters of Paul. 2nd ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1959.

Other Academic Studies

Burtchaell, J. T. Philemon’s Problem: A Theology of Grace. 1973. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.