Reconstructing the Historical Background of Paul`s Rhetoric in the Letter to the Colossians

includes index and biblioraphy

1. History of Scholarship......1 2. Epistolary analysis of Audience in Colossians ..........40 Audience in Ancient letter-writing ..............42 Defining the Audience in Colossians ..............64 3. Rhetorical Anlysis of Colossians and the Rhetorical Situation ........81 Rhetorical Criticism and the new testament ............81 Rhetorical Analysis of Colossians ...........90 Exigence and Rhetorical Situation in Colossians ..........140 4. Historical Analysis of the religious atmosphere in the lycus valley ..........144 Literary evidence ............145 Non-Literary evidence ............169 5. Reconstruction of two threads of Opposition ..........195 Introducing the two threads ......197 Christ`s Work regarding the two threads .............203 Separating the two threads into detailed warnings.................206 Intertwining the two threads ........233