
Letters and Communities
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- Frontmatter
- List of Contributors
- 0: Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Fögen, and Ingo Gildenhard: Introduction
- A: Theory and Practice of Epistolary Communication
- 1: Thorsten Fögen: Ancient Approaches to Letter-Writing and the Configuration of Communities through Epistles
- 2: Bianca-Jeanette Schröder: Couriers and Conventions in Cicero's Epistolary Network
- B: Configurations of Power and Epistolary Communication: From Greece to Rome
- 3: Sian Lewis: Tyrants, Letters, and Legitimacy
- 4: Manuela Mari: Powers in Dialogue: The Letters and diagrammata of Macedonian Kings to Local Communities
- 5: Paola Ceccarelli: Letters and Decrees: Diplomatic Protocols in the Hellenistic Period
- 6: Robin Osborne: Letters, Diplomacy, and the Roman Conquest of Greece
- 7: Ingo Gildenhard: A Republic in Letters: Epistolary Communities in Cicero s Correspondence, 49-43 BCE
- C: Letters and Communities in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
- 8: Sebastian Grätz: The Literary and Ideological Character of the Letters in Ezra 4-7
- 9: Philip Alexander: 'From me, Jerusalem, the Holy City, to you Alexandria in Egypt, my Sister ....' (Bavli Sanhedrin 107b): The Role of Letters in Power Relations between 'Centre' and 'Periphery' in Judaism in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Early Islamic Periods
- 10: Lutz Doering: Configuring Addressee Communities in Ancient Jewish Letters: The Case of the Epistle of Baruch (2 Baruch 78-86)
- 11: John M. G. Barclay: The Letters of Paul and the Construction of Early Christian Networks
- 12: Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: The Communities Configured in the Letter of James
- D: Envoi
- 13: Catharine Edwards: Conversing with the Absent, Corresponding with the Dead: Friendship and Philosophical Community in Seneca's Letters
- Endmatter
- General Index
- Index locorum
- Index of Authors
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