TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doty,W.G.
AU  - Via, Dan O (Jr) (Editor)
TI  - Letters in primitive Christianity
SN  - 080060170X (pbk)
U1  - 227.066 20
PY  - 1973///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Fortress
N1  - Epistolary Literature in Herllenism: Graeco-Roman Letters -- Types of Letters -- Letter Theorists and Handbooks -- Characteristic features of the Greek Letter -- Summary: Hellenistic letters -- Primitive Christian letters 
The Pauline letters: Adaptations and Modifications -- The Form of the Pauline Letters: Opening;  Thanksgiving;  Body;  Paraenesis;  Closing; Summary and observations: The Pauline Letters 
Forms within the New Testament Epistles: Study in the Epistles: Stylistic and Rhetorical features;  Structural features;  Formal and Generic Treaits;  Use of Traditional Materials -- Formal Elements in the Letters: Autobiography;  Apocalyptic;  Catalogues and Lists; Catechesis;  Confessional Formulae;  Hymnic Materials;  Judgment;  Additional Formal Elements
Early Christian Letters: Post-Pauline writings in Letter Form;  The Pseudo-Pauline and Universal Letters;  Post-Canonical Letters;  Interpretive reflections
ER  -