BiblicalStudies.org.uk: The New Testament Letters

Theology on the Web provides free access to thousands of theological books and articles to over 3 million visitors a year. Please support our Go Fund Me Campaign to cover the cost of our webserver so that this service can remain online. Click here for more details.

Home › New Testament › Letters

Letter Carriers in the Roman World

	Lionel Casson, Travel in the Ancient World. London: Allen & Unwin, 1974.
	Allan Chapple, "Getting Romans to the Right Romans: Phoebe and the Delivery of Paul's Letter," Tyndale Bulletin 62.2 (2011): 195-214. pdf
	Eldon J. Epp, "New Testament Papyrus Manuscripts and Letter-Carrying in Greco-Roman Times," Birger A. Pearson, A.T. Kraabel, George W.E. Nickelsburg & Norman R. Petersen, eds., The Future of Early Christianity. Miineapolis, MN: Fortress, 1991. pp.35-36.
	Matthew S.. Harmon, "Letter Carrier's and Paul's Use of Scripture," Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters Vol. 4.2 (Fall 2014): 129-148.
	Peter M. Head, "Letter Carriers in Ancient Jewish Epistolary Material," Craig A. Evans & H. Daniel Zacharias, Jewish and Christian Scripture as Artifact and Canon. Library of Second Century Studies 70. London: T & T Clark, 2009. pp.203-219. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	Peter M. Head, "Named Letter-Carriers among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 31.3 (March 2009): 279-299.
	Peter M. Head, "Onesimus the Letter Carrier and the Initial Reception of Paul’s Letter to Philemon," The Journal of Theological Studies 71.2 (Oct. 2020): 628-656.
	Hans-Josef Klauck, Ancient Letters and the New Testament: A Guide to Context and Exegesis. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006. pp.60-65.
	S.R. Llewelyn, "The Conveyance of Letters," New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, Vol. 7: A Review of Greek Inscriptions and Papyripublished in 1982-83. The Ancient History Document Resarch Centre, Macquarie University, 1994. pp.1-22.
	Brian M. Rapske, "Acts, Travel and Shipwreck," David W. J. Gill and Conrad Gempf, eds., The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, Volume 2: The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans/Carlisle: Paternoster, 1994. pp.1-47.
	Christopher D. Stanley, Arguing with Scripture:The Rhetoric of Quotations in the Letters of Paul. New York: T & T Clark, 2004. pp.38-71. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	Christopher D. Stanley, "Paul's 'Use' of Scripture: Why the Audience Matters," Stanley E. Porter & Christopher D. Stanley, eds., As It Is Written: Studying Paul's Use of Scripture. SBL Symposium Series 50. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008. pp.125-155.
	M. Luther Stirewalt, "Paul's Evaluation of Letter-Writing," Jacob M. Myers, Otto Reimherr & Howard N. Bream, eds., Search the Scriptures:New Testament Studies in Honor of Raymond T. Stamm. Leiden: Brill, 1969. pp.179-196.
	Terry L. Wilder, "Phoebe, the Letter-Carrier of Romans, and the Impact of Her Role on Biblical Theology," Southwestern Journal of Theology 56.1 (Fall 2013): 43–51. pdf

Other Subjects

	P. Arzt, "The 'Epistolary Introductory Thanksgiving'in the Papyri and in Paul," Novum Testamentum 36 (1994): 29-46.
	G.J. Bahr, "The Subscriptions in the Pauline Letters," Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (1968): 27-41.
	Conrad Gempf, "Pseudonymity and the New Testament," Themelios 17.2 (January/February 1992): 8-10.
	L. Ann Jervis, The Purpose of Romans: A Comparative Letter Structure Investigation Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 55. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1991. ISBN: 9780567016676. pp.86-109. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	R. Jewett, "The Form and Function of the Homiletic Benediction," Anglican Theological Review 51 (1969) 13-34.
	Francis Lyall, "Legal Metaphors in the Epistles," Tyndale Bulletin 32 (1981): 79-95. pdf
	Alan Hugh McNeile [1871-1933], An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927. Hbk. pp.478. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	T.Y. Mullins, "Petition as a Literary Form," Novum Testamentum 5 (1962): 46-54.
	T.Y. Mullins, "Disclosure: A Literary Form in the New Testament," Novum Testamentum 7 (1964): 44-50.
	T.Y. Mullins, "Greeting as a New Testament Form," Journal of Biblical Literature 88 (1968): 418-26.
	T.Y. Mullins, "Visit Talk in New Testament Letters," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 35 (1973): 350-58.
	T.Y. Mullins, "Benediction as a New Testament Form," Andrews University Seminary Studies 15 (1977): 59-64.
	T. Y. Mullins, "Topos as a New Testament Form," Journal of Biblical Literature 99 (1980): 541-47.
	Peter T. O'Brien, Introductory Thanksgivings in the Letters of Paul NovTSup 49. Leiden: Brill, 1977. Hbk. SBN: 9004052658. pp.309.
	S.N. Olson, "Epistolary Uses of Expressions of Self-Confidence;' Journal of Biblical Literature 103 (1984): 585-97.
	S.N. Olson, "Pauline Expressions of Confidence in His Addresses," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 47 (1985): 282-95.
	Stanley E. Porter & Bryan R. Dyer, "Oral Texts? A Reassessment of the Oral and Rhetorical Nature of Paul’s Letters in Light of Recent Studies," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 55.2 (June 2012): 323-341. pdf
	J. Sanders, "The Transition from Opening Epistolary Thanksgiving to Body in the Letters of the Pauline Corpus," Journal of Biblical Literature 81 (1962): 348-62.
	Thomas R. Schreiner, Handbook on Acts and Paul's Letters. Grand Rapids: baker, 2019. ISBN: 9781493419821. pp.480. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	P. Schubert, Form and Function of the Pauline Thanksgivings. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1939.
	Stanley K. Stowers, Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0664250157. pp.188.
	Jeffrey A.D. Weima, "The Pauline Letter Closings: Analysis and Hermeneutical Significance," Bulletin for Biblical Research 5 (1995) 177-198. pdf
	John Lee White, The Body of the Greek Letter Society for Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 2; Missoula: Scholars Press, 1982. Pbk. ISBN: 0891300481. pp.131.
	John Lee White, "Introductory Formulae in the Body of the Pauline Letter," Journal of Biblical Literature 90 (1971): 91-97.