Philippians

This volume employs a text-centered literary-rhetorical and audience-oriented method to demonstrate how the implied audience of Philippians are persuaded and exhorted by the dynamic progression of the letter s chiastic structures to rejoice along with Paul and other believers in being conformed with all of the broad implications of such conformity to Christ. This reading assumes that Philippians is a single unified letter written to be read and heard in a public setting as an oral performance substituting for the personal presence of the imprisoned Paul and it proposes new chiastic structures for the entire letter as a key to understanding it.