Description: This volume employs a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and audience-oriented method to demonstrate how the implied audience of Philippians are persuaded and exhorted by the dynamic progression of the letter’s chiastic structures to rejoice along with Paul and other believers in being conformed, with all of the broad implications of such conformity, to Christ. This reading assumes that Philippians is a single, unified letter written to be read and heard in a public setting as an oral performance substituting for the personal presence of the imprisoned Paul, and it proposes new chiastic structures for the entire letter as a key to understanding it. Subjects: Bible, New Testament, Pauline Epistles, Phillipians, Literature
Review by Todd D. Still
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Published 7/22/2012
Citation: Todd D. Still, review of John Paul Heil, Philippians: Let Us Rejoice in Being Conformed to Christ, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2012).
Review by Peter-Ben Smit
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Published 7/22/2012
Citation: Peter-Ben Smit, review of John Paul Heil, Philippians: Let Us Rejoice in Being Conformed to Christ, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2012).
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