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Paul and First-century Letter Writing - Secretaries, Composition, and Collection (Microfilm, New)
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Paul and First-century Letter Writing - Secretaries, Composition, and Collection (Microfilm, New)
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Traditional Christian art depicts Paul the letter writer, pen in
hand, attentive to the Spirit. We might think we know better and
imagine him pacing in agitation as he rapidly dictates to a
secretary his letter to the Galatians. But in reality neither of
these pictures is accurate. In Paul's day, producing a letter was a
time-consuming and costly business. And we have ample resources
from the ancient world to piece together what it must have been
like. A secretary was usually part of the picture. But so were
notes, drafts, corrections and careful rewrites, not to speak of
scratchy pens, sooty ink and coarse papyrus. Interestingly, there
is evidence that Paul involved his missionary team in the writing
of letters. And then came the delivery over land and sea, the
reading and circulation, as well as the epistolary afterlife of
copying, collecting and storing. E. Randolph Richards has
extensively studied ancient letter writing and secretaries.
Informed by the historical evidence and with a sharp eye for
telltale clues in Paul's letters, he takes us into this world and
places us on the scene with Paul the letter writer. What first
appears to be just a study of secretaries and stationery turns out
to be an intriguing glimpse of Paul the letter writer that
overthrows our preconceptions and offers a new perspective on how
this important portion of Christian Scripture came to be.
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