TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oakes,Peter
TI  - Philippians: from people to letter 
T2  - Society for New Testament Studies monograph series
SN  - 9780521036610
U1  - 227.606/OAK 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - N.T
KW  - Philippians
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Philippi (Extinct city)
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and indexes; Philippi.

Looking at Philippi -- A model of the development of society in the area of Philippi -- A model of the social composition of the town of Philippi -- Veteran soldiers in Philippi in the middle of the first century AD; The Philippian church.

Approach -- A model of the composition of the church at Philippi -- Checking the model against data from Philippians and elsewhere in the New Testament -- Living in Philippi
; Suffering and unity.

Philippians are suffering -- Suggestions of Jewish christians or Jewish opponents in 1:27-30 -- "To suffer for Christ" (1:28) : what does it mean? -- Descriptions of Christian sufferings in early texts -- The issue of unity in a suffering church; Paul and the Philippians.

Paul as a model of the suffering Philippians -- Hearing the model -- Scholarly approaches to the autobiographical passages; Christ and the Emperor.

Previous studies -- Philippians 3:20-21 -- Philippians 2:9-11 -- Conclusions; Christ and the Philippians.

The shape of the appeal in 2:1-4 -- The function of 2:6-11 -- The nature of Philippians 2:6-11

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