Paul and First-Century Letter Writing Secretaries, Composition and Collection

includes index and biblioraphy

Ancients and Their Letters ........13 Sources of Information ..............14 Other books on paul and letter writing ..............16 why Read This book ............17 1. A modern, Western paul ........19 Modern models of paul the letter writer .........20 Underlying assumptions in both modern models .......23 Problems with modern models ............26 Conclusions for paul as a letter writer ..............31 2. Paul as a First - Century letter writer ...........32 Paul as the leader of a mission team ............32 Paul and his cauthors .............33 The letter writer`s Office ..........36 Conclusions for paul as a Letter writer ................45 3. The tools of a Letter writer .............47 writing materials .................47 Desks ..........53 Notes and notebooks ..........55 Conclusions for paul as a Letter weriter .........58 4. Secretaries in the first - century world .........59 How common were secrataries ..........60 How did secretaries works ..........64 Conclusions for paul as a letter writer .........79 5. Paul`s use of a Secretary ......81 Describing paul`s Secretary .......81 Identifying paul`s Secretary ........89 Conclusions for paul as a letter writer ...............92 6. Identifying inserted Material ....94 Modern concepts of Plagiarism and copyright........94 Preformed material.......95 Interpolations ......99 Conclusions for paul as a Letter writer ...........108 7. Weaving together a letter ......109 Weaving inserted material into a letter ..........109 The author and inserted material .......118 Conclusions for paul as a Letter writer ............120 8. Classifying paul`s letters ..........122 Public or private : Classifying greco-roman Letters ............122 Paul`s Letter as a Greco-Roman Letter ............127 9. Analysing paul`s Writing style ........141 The writing style of Paul ...............141 Stylistic Differences because paul used a Secratary .........148 10. Preparing a Letter for Dispatch .............156 Making a Copy ...........156 Preparing a Dispatched copy................161 Estimating paul`s Cost to write a Letter ..........165 11. Dispatching the Letter ...........171 Signing the letter .......171 Folding and sealing the letter.........176 carrying the letter .............177 12. Paul`s Letter carriers ..........188 Identifying paul`s Cariers .............188 The logistics of Carrying paul`s Letters ...............189 13. Use of his letter carriers ............201 Additional tasks of a Letter carrier............201 The availability of a carrier .............204 Paul`s Developing use of letter Carriers ..............207 14. Collecting paul`s Letters ............210 Formation of the pauline corpus ...........210 Retaining personal copies .............214 Copies and the codex ..........216 Collections from retained copies .........217 The collection of paul`s Letters ............218 15. Inspiration and first - century letter writing .........224 Letter writing and inspiration .............224