Virtually all modern commentaries on Philemon agree with the interpretation from late antiquity that the letter treats the case of Onesimus a pilfering runaway slave who Paul is attempting to rehabilitate in the eyes of Philemon his rightfully angry master.
Published Date:
01/04/1997
Author:
Allen Dwight Callahan
Publisher:
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Format:
Paperback / softback