Philemon

At a Glance

Treatise

Genre:

(5/5) *****

Reliability of Dating:

(1/5) *

Length of Text:

Greek

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Estimated Range of Dating: 50-60 C.E.

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Online Resources for Philemon

Offline Resources for Philemon

Murray J. Harris, Colossians & Philemon (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1991)
W. H. Griffith Thomas, Studies in Colossians and Philemon (Kregel Publications 1986)
Burton L. Mack, Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 143-144.
Raymond Edward Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament (New York: Doubleday, 1997), pp. 502-510.
Udo Schnelle, translated by M. Eugene Boring, The History and Theology of the New Testament Writings (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998), pp. 143-150.

Information on Philemon

Philemon is generally accepted to be an authentic letter of Paul. The grounds for acceptance are simple; the letter is a short, mundane, and presents no difficulties for Pauline authorship in style or thought.

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