Paul and His Colleagues
Identity, Collaboration, and Community
Paul and His Colleagues
Identity, Collaboration, and Community
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Trevor Burke considers Paul's colleagues and their different relationships with Paul, whether as equals, subordinates, and whether well-known or obscure, tracing how Paul refers to those with whom he associated in his letters. Burke examines these different figures in Paul's life in depth, including the remarkably large number of women mentioned, and shows how they played key roles through a range of activities in helping establish and maintain Paul's communities, including, preaching, teaching, visiting, baptizing, and the co-authoring of his letters.
Burke employs a sociolinguistic approach to understand Paul's social relations, arguing that the language Paul uses in his letters is the means whereby he constructs his social network. That is, Paul does not need to use a title (e.g., 'apostle') to indicate his role and function or that of his colleagues; rather, he 'grammaticalizes' social relations in his letters through his deliberate choice of lexeme (e.g., proper noun) and syntax (e.g., secondary clause) which signifies the value and contribution-and at times disapproval-of those with whom he joined forces.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
Abbreviations
Section A: Issues, Approaches and Terminology
Introduction
1. Collating Paul's Language of Collegiality
Section B: Paul's Better Known Colleagues
2. Timothy and Apollos
3. Priscilla and Aquila
4. Titus, Silas and Philemon
Section C: Women as Associates of Paul
5. Phoebe, Euodia and Syntyche, Junia, et al
Section D: Some Less Well-Known Colleauges
6. Epaphroditus and Epaphras
7. Some Other Lesser-Known Colleagues of Paul
8. Local Leaders as Important Co-Workers of Paul: 1 Thess. 5:12-15 as a Test Case
Section E
9. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Mar 19 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780567680136 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | The Library of New Testament Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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