Onesimus The Run-away Slave

Paul and the background of slavery: Callahan, A D Paul's Epistle to Philemon: Toward an alternative argumentum in Harvard Theological Review 86 4 , The Letter of Paul to Philemon. The New Testament in Context. Dunn, J D G The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon: Die Briefe des Paulus an die Philipper und an Philemon: Fitzmyer, J A A new translation with introduction and commentary AB 34C.

Paulus und der Sklave Onesimus. Ein beachtenswerter Kommentar zum Filemonbrief in EvTh 37, Harrill, J A Using the Roman jurists to interpret Philemon: Slaves in the New Testament. Literary, social and moral dimensions.

1. The Runaway Slave?
2. Onesimus, was a run away slave from which city? - Bible Question & Answer!
3. The Giant Yo-Yo Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries);
4. Onesimus: A Runaway Slave!
5. Onesimus, the Run-Away Slave by Ernest A. Jones Sr..

Horsley, R A A critical alternative to recent readings in Semeia , Were you referring to his article on Philemon in the Anchor Bible Dictionary or has he written additional material? I have seen so many references to that dissertation, but have never read it. Bartchy made a presentation at the ? SBL meeting in Kansas City. I got the statements of the Roman jurists from the handout he used that day. His ABD article s were just being submitted back then, I think. It makes sense to me.

Paul shows in his letter that he knows Philemon well and certainly Onesimus would have known about Paul although we don't know if Paul actually knew him before his arrival in Rome. I don't remember Dr.

Paul Pleads for a Runaway Slave

Black's sources but I will check my notes tomorrow and see. I'll have to check out Fitzmeyer's commentary on Philemon. I think this idea fits the letter well. I agree that we should be careful to compare America's slavery industry with the first century's. Looking forward to more about Larimore. I would be happy to loan you my copy of the dissertation.

I just looked at it and the copyright is ! I think I bought it in about , and it was difficult reading because there are footnotes in at least languages without translation: Greek, Latin, German, French, etc. Let me know and I will mail it.

It is a photocopy publication directly from the Harvard Div dissertation. I will have to look and see if he quotes Bartchy. I will get back with you in an hour or two.

The Runaway Slave | Christian Voices Bexhill

According to Fitzmeyer here is the low down. This theory was "proposed by Lampe and seconded by Rapske. It is preferred by Bartchy, Dunn, Patzia. Anyway, it looks like it wasn't developed by Bartchy. Sorry for all the comments. Goodenough in HTR, 22 , That would take this debate back quite some time before Bartchy.

Sorry for the confusion. The Philemon commentary by Fitzmeyer is in the Anchor Bible series. I was referring the latter, and not the former.

• Navigation menu!
• Polizeistaat versus Rechtsstaat (German Edition).
• Onesimus, the Run-Away Slave.
• Navigation menu.
• Le Semeur, La Semence Et Les Coeurs Des Hommes (Aide Pratique Dans la Sanctification t. 4) (French Edition).
• El acoso moral: El maltrato psicológico en la vida cotidiana (Spanish Edition)!
• Wine and Dine 1-2-3: A guide to the preparation of great dishes, choosing wines/beers to ADD during preparation and selecting wines/beers to PAIR with the dishes once they are ready to serve.;

The articles are lengthy and also quite helpful. Thanks, Matt, for tracking down the history of this viewpoint. Because the general observation ie, regarding the Roman legal background to Philemon has been around for so long, I wonder why it has hardly even been mentioned in the more-recent secondary literature. Something else that comes to mind: How is Philemon interpreted by early Christian writers, those much closer to the circumstances of the letter. No, Matt, I'm not sending you on another research errand: But I wonder how, for example, Chrysostom or Augustine understand Philemon.

The caution of reading American slavery back into the text is a worthy one. You might find it nice to have a comment on something you wrote almost three years ago but I came across this on a Google search. I've been doing a class on how to study the Bible at my small church in Toccoa, GA and our instructor chose Philemon for it's shortness.

I grew up in a fundamental church that taught Onesimus was a runaway slave but as I read it it seemed to me more that he was more like an indentured servant who had some rights. His slavery was starkly different then that in southern USA.

See a Problem?

He may well be the freed Onesimus from the Epistle to Philemon. The Epistle to Philemon was written by Paul the Apostle to Philemon concerning a person believed to be a runaway slave named Onesimus. The traditional designation of Onesimus as a slave is doubted by some modern scholars. Paul, having earlier converted Philemon to Christianity, sought to reconcile the two by writing the letter to Philemon which today exists in the New Testament. The letter reads in part:. I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains, who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me.



• Services on Demand.
• Crochet with Wire!
• If I Had You (Bedford, Deborah).
• Healing (Bite-size Veils Book 3)!
• A Hero of Our Time.

I am sending him back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel. But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.

For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. Although it is doubted by authorities such as Joseph Fitzmyer , [9] it may be the case that this Onesimus was the same one consecrated a bishop by the Apostles and who accepted the episcopal throne in Ephesus [10] following Saint Timothy.

During the reign of Roman emperor Domitian and the persecution of Trajan , Onesimus was imprisoned in Rome and may have been martyred by stoning although some sources claim that he was beheaded. However, since the reign of Domitian was from 81 A. Onesimus is regarded as a saint by many Christian denominations.