Original Research - Special Collection: UP Faculty of Theology Centenary Volume One

Die resepsie van retoriese momente van die Filemonbrief deur Patristiese eksegete

D. Francois Tolmie
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 72, No 4 | a3276 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i4.3276 | © 2016 D. Francois Tolmie | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 01 December 2015 | Published: 15 July 2016

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D. Francois Tolmie, Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, South Africa

Abstract

The reception of rhetorical elements in the Letter to Philemon by Patristic exegetes. The aim of this study is to offer an overview of the way in which Patristic exegetes interpreted the rhetorical aspects of Paul’s Letter to Philemon. Although a rhetorical analysis of the letter was not the matter which interested them as such, one can still obtain a fairly good idea of the way in which they perceived such aspects by reading their explanations of this letter. Accordingly, the contributions of all the Patristic exegetes in this regard are studied systematically in this study. The interpretations of the letters by Ambrosiaster, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Pelagius, Theodore of Mopsuestia and Theodoret of Cyrus are investigated from this angle. In each case, the most important comments on Paul’s rhetorical strategy are identified and discussed.

Keywords: Pauline Letters; Letter to Philemon; Rhetorical Analaysis; Patristic Exegetes


Keywords

Pauline Letters; Letter to Philemon; Rhetorical Analaysis; Patristic Exegetes

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