TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richards, E Randolph
AU  - Richards,E Randolph
TI  - Paul and First-Century Letter Writing:  Secretaries, Composition and Collection
SN  - 9781844740666
U1  - B86 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - England
PB  - Apollos
KW  - History and Criticism
KW  - Bible, Epistles of Paul- Criticism
KW  - Classical Letters
KW  - Letter Writing
N1  - 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
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