The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians Benjamin Lowy Melville painstakingly remade himself as

Melville painstakingly remade himself as a poet

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The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians Benjamin Lowy Melville painstakingly remade himself asThis volume completes Ben Witherington's contributions to the set of Eerdmans socio rhetorical commentaries on the New Testament. In addition to the usual features of these commentaries, Witherington offers an innovative way of looking at Colossians, Ephesians, and Philemon as interrelated documents written at different levels of moral discourse. Colossians is first order moral discourse (the opening gambit), Ephesians is second order moral discourse