This book both brings out the colorful background to Paul's thought in the first century Roman world and describes the message of his Letter to the Romans in light of his missionary career as an apostle.
This book investigates Colossians as a "captivity" letter from the primary implied author, the imprisoned Paul, to an implied audience of mainly Gentile converts currently in danger of influence by local Jews or Jewish Christians. Utilizing a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and audience-oriented method, it demonstrates new chiastic structures for the entire letter that progressively encoura…