Paul and the ancient letter form

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Pauline epistolography : an introduction /Stanley E. Porter and Sean A. Adams --A functional letter perspective : towards a grammar of epistolary form /Stanley E. Porter --Paul's letter opening and Greek epistolography : a matter of relationship /Sean A. Adams --How to begin, and why? : diverse functions of the Pauline prescript within a Greco-Roman context /Philip L. Tite --Gospel within the constraints of an epistolary form : Pauline introductory thanksgivings and Paul's theology of thanksgiving /David W. Pao --Paul's letter thanksgiving /Peter Arzt-Grabner --A significant decade : the trajectory of the Hellenistic epistolary thanksgiving /Raymond F. Collins --Investigating the Pauline letter body : issues, methods, and approaches /Troy W. Martin --A moral dilemma? : the epistolary body of 2 Timothy /Cynthia Long Westfall --Paul's letter paraenesis /Young Chul Whang --Philosophical and epistolary contexts for Pauline paraenesis /Andrew W. Pitts --Sincerely, Paul : the significance of the Pauline letter closings /Jeffrey A.D. Weima..