Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Pauline epistolography : an introduction / Stanley E. Porter and Sean A. Adams -- A functional letter perspective : towards a grammar of epistolary form / Stanley E. Porter -- Paul's letter opening and Greek epistolography : a matter of relationship / Sean A. Adams -- How to begin, and why? : diverse functions of the Pauline prescript within a Greco-Roman context / Philip L. Tite -- Gospel within the constraints of an epistolary form : Pauline introductory thanksgivings and Paul's theology of thanksgiving / David W. Pao -- Paul's letter thanksgiving / Peter Arzt-Grabner -- A significant decade : the trajectory of the Hellenistic epistolary thanksgiving / Raymond F. Collins -- Investigating the Pauline letter body : issues, methods, and approaches / Troy W. Martin -- A moral dilemma? : the epistolary body of 2 Timothy / Cynthia Long Westfall -- Paul's letter paraenesis / Young Chul Whang -- Philosophical and epistolary contexts for Pauline paraenesis / Andrew W. Pitts -- Sincerely, Paul : the significance of the Pauline letter closings / Jeffrey A.D. Weima.

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