Name: Letter to Philemon: New International Commentary on the New Testament
Brand: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
SKU: 873828
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Author: Scot McKnight
ISBN: 9780802873828

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Scot McKnight provides a careful textual analysis of the controversial letter to Philemon. Though its content challenges social barriers and establishes new realities of conduct and fellowship, Philemon has also been misused to justify slavery. McKnight offers a much-needed careful exegesis, contrasting ancient conventions with the practice of modern slavery and providing the context for a faithful and accurate reading.

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Title: Letter to Philemon: New International Commentary on the New Testament
By: Scot McKnight
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 160
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 2017

Dimensions: 9.25 X 6.13 (inches)
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 0802873820
ISBN-13: 9780802873828
Series: NICNT
Stock No: WW873828

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The Academy of Parish Clergy’s 2018 Top Five Reference Books for Parish Ministry

Paul's letter to Philemon carries a strong message of breaking down social barriers and establishing new realities of conduct and fellowship. It is also a disturbing text that has been used to justify slavery. Though brief, Philemon requires close scrutiny.

In this commentary Scot McKnight offers careful textual analysis of Philemon and brings the practice of modern slavery into conversation with the ancient text. Too often, McKnight says, studies of this short letter gloss over the issue of slavery—an issue that must be recognized and dealt with if Christians are to read Philemon faithfully. Pastors and scholars will find in this volume the insight they need to preach and teach this controversial book in meaningful new ways.

Author Bio

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Scot McKnight teaches in the Doctor of Ministry program at Houston Theological Seminary. His many books include The Jesus Creed, A Community Called Atonement, A Church Called Tov (coauthored with Laura Barringer), Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church, The Second Testament: A New Translation, and multiple volumes in the New Testament Everyday Bible Study series.

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— Jerry L. Sumney
Lexington Theological Seminary
"Scot McKnight has given us a bold study of this controversial little letter. He stares unflinchingly into the realities of slavery. . . . Working from conservative positions on critical issues, McKnight sees the letter to Philemon as demanding that the church today work in society to bring reconciliation and liberation to a world in need of both."

— Jennifer Glancy
author of Slavery in Early Christianity
"With thoughtful attention to the painful realities of Roman slavery, McKnight invites churches to approach this ’deeply disturbing letter’ as an invitation to become spaces of reconciliation, communities that subvert slavery ’by naming it, by fighting against it, and by embodying a new way of life.’ "

— Michael F. Bird
Ridley College, Melbourne
"A lucid and illuminating verse-by-verse analysis of Paul’s letter to Philemon. Scot McKnight soberly tackles the topics of Roman slavery, reconciliation, and Paul’s vision for churches to be dominated not by power relationships but by sibling-like relationships rooted in the new creation. McKnight makes this small letter stand tall among the writings of the Pauline corpus. A sheer joy to read!"