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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.