Onesimus Our Brother (Paul In Critical Contexts Series)

Philemon is as important a letter from an African American perspective as Romans or Galatians has proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here the editors gather critical essays by a constellation of African American and other scholars, highlighting the latest in interpretive methods, troubling scholarly waters and interacting with the legacies of Hegel, Freud, Habermas, Ricoeur, and James C. Scott as well as the historical experience of African American communities. *Onesimus Our Brother* opens surprising new vistas on Paul's shortest and, in some ways, most enigmatic letter.*??Philemon Interpreted: A History*  Demetrius K. Williams  
*?Early Christian Slavery: A Survey* Mitzi J. Smith  
*?Nat is Back: The Return of the Re/Oppressed* James A. Noel  
*?Onesimus Speaks: Diagnosing the Hysteria of the Text* Matthew V. Johnson  
*?Shared Flesh? Interrogating Slavery and Gender in Philemon* Alma Crawford  
*?Enslaved by the Text: The Uses of Philemon* James Perkinson?  
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Noel and Johnson make the point that Philemon is as important a letter from an African-American perspective as Romans or Galatians have proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here they gather critical essays by a constellation of African-American scholars, highlighting the latest in interpretive methods and troubling scholarly waters, interacting with the legacies of Hegel, Freud, Habermas, Ricoeur, and James C. Scott as well as the historical experience of African American communities. Onesimus Our Brother opens surprising new vistas on Paul's shortest and, in some ways, most troubling letter.Read less