Onesimus Our Brother Reading, Religion, Race, and Slavery in Philemon

Name: Onesimus Our Brother Reading, Religion, Race, and Slavery in Philemon
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ISBN: 9780800663414

ISBN-10: 0800663411

ISBN-13: 9780800663414

Edition: 2012

Authors: Matthew V. Johnson, James A. Noel

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Philemon is as important a letter from an African American perspective as Romans or Galatians have 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 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.

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List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 7/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

SUSANNE C.nbsp;PUISSANT received her first degree of English, Theology and French at the Eberhard-Karls-Universitt Tbingen, Germany. From 2004-2007 she held a scholarship at Jacobs University, Bremen where she completed her PhD in Literature in 2007 and taught various courses. She now works as a teacher of English at a grammar school in Germany.JAMES A. NOELnbsp;is Associate Professor of American Religion at San Francisco Theological Seminary, USA.



Contribution


Introduction: Paul's Relevance Today


Traditional Biblical Criticism


The Reorientation of Reader Perspectives: Reading "from the Margins"


Origins of the Present Volume


Overview of the Volume



"No Longer as a Slave": Reading the Interpretation


History of Paul's Epistle to Philemon



Overview and Approach: An Ideological Optic/Option


Reading Philemon from the Early Church to the Reformation


Reading Philemon in the Modern Era


Newer Readings of Philemon from the Margins



Utility, Fraternity, and Reconciliation:


Ancient Slavery as a Context for the Return of Onesimus



From Useless to Useful: Slave Productivity


I Am My Brother's Keeper: Familial Slavery and Fictive Kinship


Fugitive Slaves and Reconciliation


Conclusion



Nat Is Back: The Return of the Re/Oppressed in Philemon



Slavery in the Greco-Roman World


Slavery in Paul's Letters


The Occasion of Philemon


Dred Scott


American Slavery and the Legal Construction of Race


White Supremacist Religious Discourse


Turning Again to the Mis-Reading of Paul and the Gospels


Taney's Freudian Slip


Nat Turner's Voluntary Return


Nat Is Back in the Repressed


Conclusion



Onesimus Speaks: Diagnosing the Hys/Terror of the Text



Missing the Mark


Contra Paul


The Hys/Terror of the Text



"Ain't You Marster?": Interrogating Slavery and Gender in Philemon



Philemon Today


Dutchman


The Drinking Gourd


ABlack Woman Speaks


Banished


Traces of the Trade


Philemon Meets Onesimus



Enslaved by the Text: The Uses of Philemon



Exegetical Background


Homiletic Middle Ground


Abolitionist Common Ground


Legal Ground


Slave "Black"-Ground


Stereotypic Foreground


Erotic Underground


Ground Cover


Groundwork


Grunt Work



"Brother Saul": An Ambivalent Witness to Freedom



Apostle of Freedom?


Freedom for Women


Hearing Paul Correctively


Paul and Jesus


Paul and Black Theology


Conclusion


Notes


Index