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ANCIENT LETTERS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT: A Guide to Context and Exegesis
Picking up on an incomplete ancient definition that requires some supplementation, we have grown accustomed to regarding a letter as “half of a dialogue” or as a continuation of a conversation by other means. Recently we have also learned to understand the letter as a speech or sermon, which has been put down in writing only of necessity under the pressure of circumstances. But does the inalienable writtenness of a letter not also have its positive side? The same written form that forces the author to more intense reflection also provides the addressee with opportunities for unhurried reading and interpretive rereading. Just as in Alice’s experience, some things that pass us by when we only hear them become easier to understand when we have them before our eyes in writing.
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