NT031-812 - Interpreting and Applying Colossians And Philemon

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps NT

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT741-4.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of Colossians and Philemon

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship in its bearing on the interpretation and application of Colossians and Philemon

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of Colossians and Philemon

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of Colossians and Philemon

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying Colossians and Philemon’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

  1. Authorship, provenance and date
  2. Recent developments in Pauline scholarship
  3. Relationship to Ephesians
  4. Religion in the Lycus Valley & Archaeology of Colossae.
  5. Colossians heresy
  6. Paul and slavery
  7. Household codes
  8. Exegesis of each chapter
  9. Preaching Colossians today

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Prescribed:

Bird, Michael F. Colossians and Philemon (NCCS; Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2009).

Barclay, John M. G. Colossians and Philemon. NTG. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

 

Indicative:

Arnold, Clinton E. The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1996 [1994].

Beetham, Christopher A. Echoes of Scripture in the Letter of Paul to the Colossians. BI 96. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Bevere, Allan R. Sharing in the Inheritance: Identity and the Moral Life in Colossians. JSNTSup 226. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.

Byron, John. Recent Research on Paul and Slavery. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2008.

Callahan, Allen Dwight. Embassy of Onesimus: The Letter of Paul to Philemon. NTC. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.

Gordley, Matthew E. The Colossian Hymn in Context: An Exegesis in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Hymnic and Epistolary Conventions. WUNT 2/228. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.

Harrill, J. Albert. Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006.

Heil, John P. Colossians: Encouragement to Walk in All Wisdom as Holy Ones in Christ. SBL ECIL 4. Atlanta: SBL, 2010.

Johnson, Matthew V., James A. Noel, and Demetrius K. Williams, eds. Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Slavery in Philemon. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011.

Petersen, Norman R. Rediscovering Paul: Philemon and the Sociology of Paul’s Narrative World. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

Smith, Ian K. Heavenly Perspective: A Study of the Apostles Paul’s Response to a Jewish Mystical Movement (London: T&T Clark, 2006).

Walsh, Brian J., and Sylvia C. Keesmaat. Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.