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Adscriptio 10, 19, 24, 26, 27, 40 Co-Workers 21, 23, 25, 26, 47–52, 54, 55, Aeneas 11 65, 68, 92–94, 98, 115 Alexander the Prophet 71, 72, 74, 75, 81 Crates 51, 116, Anterior Reception 15, 16 Creedal Material 40 Antinomianism 54, 90 Culture Hero 110–112, 115–119 Apocalypticism (see also Eschatology) Cynicism 51, 58, 72, 116 83–87, 89, 102, 116 Apostasy 63 Dating Formula 78 Apostleship 1, 8, 9, 23, 35, 38, 49, 51, 52, Death (see also Martyrdom) 54, 95, 116, 67, 73, 75, 78, 85, 92–94, 96, 97, 109, 126 (of Paul) 52, 54, 84, 94, 95, 110, 115, 111–115, 117, 120, 125 126, 132 Aramaic Letters 19, 20 Derivative Value Approach 9–12 Aristotle 117, 118 Diogenes (the Cynic) 116 Asynchronic Communication 14, 29, 30, 31 Dionysius of Corinth 132 Attachment Theory 118–120 Dioscuri 31 Autograph, Epistolary 78, 79 Disclosure Formulae 44, 46, 47 Discourse 8, 12–17, 19, 20, 22–24, 26–28, Body Closing 17, 44, 45, 47, 48, 52, 53, 55, 30–32, 38, 40, 46, 49, 51, 52, 56–58, 62, 59, 62, 65, 126, 127 63, 65, 67, 68, 70, 75, 76, 80–82, 87, 89, Body Middle 17, 37, 44–48, 52, 53, 55, 102, 92, 96, 99, 107, 110, 118, 120 126, 127 Dismissal Approach 6, 9–12, 17, 22, 54, Body Opening 17, 37, 44, 45, 47–49, 52, 76, 83, 112 55, 65, 68, 125–127 Documentary Letters 44 Brethren (see Kinship) Dualism 24, 94, 97 Business Letters 29, 32, 58, 59, 61, 78 Eastern Church 4, 130, 131, 133 Canon 1, 4, 8, 70, 103–109, 111, 112, 114, Ebionites 93 119–121, 133 (non-canonical) xii, Ecclesiology 83, 91, 93, 94, 99, 113, 117 103–107, 109, 120, 121, 124 (Pauline) 1–3, Emulation (see also Imitation, Moral 13, 19, 44, 50, 58, 78, 86, 112, 114, 129, Exempla) 51, 54, 110, 115, 119 130, 132 (Marcionite) 7, 8, 114 Entextualization (see also Rhetorical (Paulician) 7 Situation) 12, 102, 112 Centralizing/Decentralizing Social Forces Epaphras 3 73, 74, 123 Eschatology (see also Apocalypticism) Charlatanism (see also False Teachers/ 35, 37–40, 49, 51, 54–56, 66–68, Philosophers) 70–76, 93, 120, 123, 133 80, 83–86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 96–99 Chiasm 52, 53, 55, 66, 79, 126 (“already/but not yet” tension) 85–93, Christ (see Jesus Christ) 99, 120 (eschatological community) Christocentric Theology 94 85, 93 (future) 38, 54, 66, 83–90, 94–98 Christology 24, 39, 94, 96, 97 (individualized) 54 (konsequente Clement of Alexandria 1 Eschatologie hypothesis) 84 (realized) Closing, Letter 11, 13, 17, 19, 20, 29, 43–45, 38, 54, 66, 83–90, 93, 95, 96 57–62, 77–80, 82, 92, 102, 115, 128 Ethics 11, 57, 60, 62, 66, 67, 84, 86, 87, 113, Colossae 3, 8, 122 115–117 Corinth 24, 132 Eusebius 132 Courage 60, 61, 116 Exordium 14, 37 156 subject index

Familial Language (see Kinship) Judaizers 69 Familial Letters 44 Judgment, Day of 38, 52, 54, 66, 88, 89, False Teachers/Philosophers (see also 125 Charlatanism) 17, 24, 26, 28, 38, 40, 41, 45, 47–49, 51, 55, 65, 66, 68–71, 73, 75, Kinship 20, 21, 25–28, 30, 38, 40, 44, 76, 81, 82, 89, 91–93, 95, 98, 102, 120 80–82, 92, 93 Father (Familial Relations) 20, 30, 32, 59 Kiss (see also Osculum pacis/sancto) 72, (Heavenly) 24, 78, 94, 96–98, 125 81, 128 Fictive Kinship (see Kinship) Functional Letter Perspective (FLP) 102 Laodicea 2, 3, 24, 98, 115, 122, 125 Functional Sentence Perspective Lefèvre d’Etaples, Jacques 5 (FSP) 102 Letter B Hypothesis (Philippians) 10, 11, 39, 68, 69, 95, 121, 122, 129, 132, 133 Galatia 35 Letter Body 17, 19, 20, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, Genre 15, 109 37, 41, 43–48, 51, 52, 54–56, 59, 60, 65, Gentile Mission 1, 88, 91, 113, 116 78, 92, 96, 98, 102, 125 Glycon 71 Letter Middle (see Letter Body) Gospel 11, 40, 65, 66, 68, 76, 113, 117, 120 Letters of Petition 20, 21 (four gospels tradition) 102, 107, 108, Letters of Recommendation 21, 22 114 (New Testament) 15, 111, 114 (true Life 95, 98, 113, 126 (ethical) 11, 57, 60, gospel) 17, 47–49, 52, 53, 55, 65, 66, 68, 62, 66, 67 (eternal) 52, 54, 55, 66, 68, 75, 76, 80, 93, 98, 102, 120, 125, 126 89, 90, 93, 95, 96, 98, 126, 127 Greeting Formulas 36 (letter opening) (Cynic) 116 (source of ) 95, 97, 98, 126 11, 17, 19, 20–23, 27, 29, 32, 60 (letter Liturgy 21, 27 closing) 21, 43, 46, 59, 62, 77–81, 128 Lucian 34, 70–75, 81, 123, 133 Lund-Oslo Group 62, 63, 103, 120 Health Wish/Report 19, 21, 29–37, 59–61, 79 Marcion, Marcionite Church 2, 6–8, 11, Hebrew Letters 20 12, 21, 24, 27, 39, 54, 93, 94, 97, 101, 107, Hercules/Heracles 51, 116 108, 114, 123, 129, 130, 132 Heresy 6, 67, 112 Marcus 74, 75 Hermes 115 Martyrdom 52, 72, 93, 95, 113, 115 Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy 11, 67 Martyrdom of Paul (see Death) Historical Situation/Occasion 12, 111 Mercy 48, 54, 55, 90, 98, 126 Holy Spirit (see also Pneumatology) 51, Mirror Reading 24 55, 68, 86, 88, 89, 94, 96–98, 126, 127 Modalist Theology 24, 96 Moral Exempla (see also Emulation, Ignatius of Antioch 1, 9, 113 Imitation) 50–53, 55, 56, 66, 68, 90, Illiteracy Formula 78 95, 115, 116 Imitation (see also Emulation, Moral Moral Exhortation (see Paraenesis) Exempla) 51 Motivation Clauses 38, 39, 45, 64, 66, Inclusio 79 67, 80 Intertextuality 12, 16, 17, 69, 81, 94, 108, Motivation for Writing 45, 47, 48, 52, 53, 122, 130 55, 59–61, 68, 82 Irenaeus 74, 102, 107, 108, 114, 123, 133 Nag Hammadi Codices 108 James 50, 117 Narratio 14 Jerome 132 Nicea, Second Council of 4 Jesus Christ 9, 17, 23, 24, 26, 27, 36, 38, 39, 49–52, 54, 55, 64, 65, 68, 69, 74, Obeisance (see also Prayer) 31, 32 78–81, 84–90, 94–98, 108, 114, 117, Odysseus 116 125–128 Official Letters 29, 78 Jesus Movement 114 Origen 96