Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race and Culture in Philemon

by Matthew V. Johnson

Philemon is the shortest letter in the Pauline collection, yetbecause it has to do with a slave separated from his masterit has played an inordinate role in the toxic brew of slavery and racism in the United States. In Onesimus Our Brother, leading African American biblical scholars tease out the often unconscious assumptions about religion, race, and culture that permeate contemporary interpretation of the New Testament and of Paul in particular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800663411
• ISBN13: 9780800663414
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"