Index of Subjects

apocalyptic 39, 124

argument from ethos 40, 97

autobiography 40, 94, 96, 97, 98, 105, 112, 113, 114, 117, 139

Byzantium 5

Caesar’s household 5, 11, 12, 35, 36, 144

City of God 3

communal identity 19, 30

corporate formation 34

disclosure formula 35

divine identity 168

Donatist controversy 48

episkopos 23

eschatological reversal 55

family letters 11, 14, 92

formula valetudinis 24

friendship 11, 13, 14, 28, 29, 31, 54, 55, 62, 69, 98, 124, 130, 132, 134, 198, 200, 203, 205

letter of 11, 13, 14

giving and receiving 28, 129, 130, 132, 142

Gnostics 10

redeemer myth 65

good works 172–73, 189

grace 165, 167–68, 173, 191–94, 195–96

harpagmos 64, 66

Holy Spirit 19, 27, 29, 30, 42, 43, 54, 68, 69, 78, 84, 106, 107, 135, 136, 142, 143

honor dishonor 26, 33, 37, 38, 43, 63, 66, 67, 82, 88 89, 98, 99, 100, 103, 113, 114, 115, 119, 125, 126, 127, 139

hope 43, 44, 48, 81, 107, 119, 120, 121, 135, 137, 143

hortatory letter of friendship 13

imperial cult 5, 6

ius Italicum 5

Jude, Epistle of, impact on history 163

koinōnia 15, 17, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 68, 69, 110, 130, 140, 142, 143, 147

letter of friendship 11, 13, 14

libation 79, 80

Luke (companion of Paul) 191–92

Maccabean literature 52

Mark (Gospel writer) 191–92

martyrs/martyrdom 3, 33, 52, 53, 57, 80, 83

moral formation 18, 19, 21, 25, 32, 33, 39, 54, 67, 81, 86, 97, 103, 132, 138, 139

opponents 10, 16, 17, 36, 52, 55, 78, 81, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 105, 113, 202

overseers and servants 23

parousia 39

partnership (koinōnia) 15, 17, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 68, 69, 118, 119, 140, 141, 143, 147

pax Romana 8

peace 167–68, 181, 195–96

perfection 10, 93, 97, 111, 112

Pharisee 99

Philemon

biological link to Onesimus? 157, 177, 181–82

Christian character of 169–74, 189–90, 195–96

fictive kinship in 157, 166, 177, 178, 181, 183, 185–86

reception history of 163–64, 194–97

situation of letter 151–63

phronēsis 12, 16, 19, 30, 31, 47, 61, 62, 63, 69, 70, 75, 81, 113, 118, 133, 134, 139

place of prayer 7

poetic narrative 59, 65, 70, 72, 74, 80, 87, 103

politeuma 49, 50, 51, 52, 92, 102, 103, 115, 135, 147

praetorian guard 5, 11, 12, 35, 36, 41, 122, 136

profit and loss 101, 107, 108, 118

proseuchē 7, 137

rhetoric

deliberative 14, 15, 59, 132

epideictic 14

forensic 14, 31

rhetorical exemplum 100

Roman citizenship 8

Roman Empire 5

Roman religion 6

saints 8, 17, 19, 22, 26, 31, 33, 70, 89, 122, 124, 134, 142, 143, 144, 146

salvation 16, 18, 39, 42, 43, 44, 46, 55, 73, 77, 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 114, 136, 137

Second Peter’s impact on history 163

slavery 151, 152, 155, 156, 158, 162, 164, 180, 181, 182, 194–96

suffering 8, 14, 35, 56, 92, 103

servant songs 66

synagogue 7, 8

synergism 83

synkrisis 37

tapeinophrosynē 63

Via Egnatia 4, 5

Voltinia, tribe of 4

wisdom 95, 106, 114, 127, 129, 139

Wisdom literature 71