St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon / A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations

The edition presents a revised Greek text of the Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon accompanied by detailed introductions, linguistic and historical commentary, and critical notes. It examines the local churches of the Lycus valley, analyzes the Colossian heresy and its relation to Gnostic and Essenic currents, and develops the epistle's Christological theology. The volume includes line-by-line textual notes, discussion of variant readings and key terms (notably plērōma), disquisitions on authorship and interpolation questions, an appendix on the Epistle from Laodicea, and a concise introduction and annotated text of Philemon, all framed by nineteenth-century philological and exegetical methods.