Onesimus Our Brother

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ISBN: 9780800663414 | 0800663411
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Copyright: 7/1/2012

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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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Contribution	p. vii
Introduction: Paul's Relevance Today	p. 1
Traditional Biblical Criticism	p. 2
The Reorientation of Reader Perspectives: Reading "from the Margins"	p. 3
Origins of the Present Volume	p. 5
Overview of the Volume	p. 7
"No Longer as a Slave": Reading the Interpretation
History of Paul's Epistle to Philemon	p. 11
Overview and Approach: An Ideological Optic/Option	p. 11
Reading Philemon from the Early Church to the Reformation	p. 15
Reading Philemon in the Modern Era	p. 20
Newer Readings of Philemon from the Margins	p. 35
Utility, Fraternity, and Reconciliation:
Ancient Slavery as a Context for the Return of Onesimus	p. 47
From Useless to Useful: Slave Productivity	p. 48
I Am My Brother's Keeper: Familial Slavery and Fictive Kinship	p. 51
Fugitive Slaves and Reconciliation	p. 55
Conclusion	p. 57
Nat Is Back: The Return of the Re/Oppressed in Philemon	p. 59
Slavery in the Greco-Roman World	p. 61
Slavery in Paul's Letters	p. 63
The Occasion of Philemon	p. 64
Dred Scott	p. 65
American Slavery and the Legal Construction of Race	p. 67
White Supremacist Religious Discourse	p. 69
Turning Again to the Mis-Reading of Paul and the Gospels	p. 73
Taney's Freudian Slip	p. 75
Nat Turner's Voluntary Return	p. 78
Nat Is Back in the Repressed	p. 82
Conclusion	p. 87
Onesimus Speaks: Diagnosing the Hys/Terror of the Text	p. 91
Missing the Mark	p. 91
Contra Paul	p. 94
The Hys/Terror of the Text	p. 97
"Ain't You Marster?": Interrogating Slavery and Gender in Philemon	p. 101
Philemon Today	p. 102
Dutchman	p. 103
The Drinking Gourd	p. 105
ABlack Woman Speaks	p. 108
Banished	p. 113
Traces of the Trade	p. 115
Philemon Meets Onesimus	p. 118
Enslaved by the Text: The Uses of Philemon	p. 121
Exegetical Background	p. 122
Homiletic Middle Ground	p. 124
Abolitionist Common Ground	p. 126
Legal Ground	p. 127
Slave "Black"-Ground	p. 129
Stereotypic Foreground	p. 131
Erotic Underground	p. 133
Ground Cover	p. 135
Groundwork	p. 137
Grunt Work	p. 139
"Brother Saul": An Ambivalent Witness to Freedom	p. 143
Apostle of Freedom?	p. 143
Freedom for Women	p. 146
Hearing Paul Correctively	p. 148
Paul and Jesus	p. 151
Paul and Black Theology	p. 154
Conclusion	p. 257
Notes	p. 161
Index	p. 175
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