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A Boy’s Letter

Theon
Track 103 on Early Christianity: The Letters of Paul 

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This letter was written on papyrus paper in Greek either in the second or third century CE. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus and is now kept… Read More 
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This letter was written on papyrus paper in Greek either in the second or third century CE. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus and is now kept in the Bodleian Library. It is a letter about a young man’s demands on his father.

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Early Christianity: The Letters of Paul (2013)
Laura Nasrallah
  1. 1.
    The Pauline Epistles (Contents)
  2. 2.
    Romans 1 (NRSV)
  3. 3.
    Romans 2 (NRSV)
  4. 4.
    Romans 3 (NRSV)
  5. 5.
    Romans 4 (NRSV)
  6. 6.
    Romans 5 (NRSV)
  7. 7.
    Romans 6 (NRSV)
  8. 8.
    Romans 7 (NRSV)
  9. 9.
    Romans 8 (NRSV)
  10. 10.
    Romans 9 (NRSV)
  11. 11.
    Romans 10 (NRSV)
  12. 12.
    Romans 11 (NRSV)
  13. 13.
    Romans 12 (NRSV)
  14. 14.
    Romans 13 (NRSV)
  15. 15.
    Romans 14 (NRSV)
  16. 16.
    Romans 15 (NRSV)
  17. 17.
    Romans 16 (NRSV)
  18. 19.
    1 Corinthians 2 (NRSV)
  19. 20.
    1 Corinthians 3 (NRSV)
  20. 21.
    1 Corinthians 4 (NRSV)
  21. 22.
    1 Corinthians 5 (NRSV)
  22. 23.
    1 Corinthians 6 (NRSV)
  23. 24.
    1 Corinthians 7 (NRSV)
  24. 25.
    1 Corinthians 8 (NRSV)
  25. 26.
    1 Corinthians 9 (NRSV)
  26. 27.
    1 Corinthians 10 (NRSV)
  27. 28.
    1 Corinthians 11 (NRSV)
  28. 29.
    1 Corinthians 12 (NRSV)
  29. 30.
    1 Corinthians 13 (NRSV)
  30. 31.
    1 Corinthians 14 (NRSV)
  31. 32.
    1 Corinthians 15 (NRSV)
  32. 33.
    1 Corinthians 16 (NRSV)
  33. 34.
    2 Corinthians 1 (NRSV)
  34. 35.
    2 Corinthians 2 (NRSV)
  35. 36.
    2 Corinthians 3 (NRSV)
  36. 37.
    2 Corinthians 4 (NRSV)
  37. 38.
    2 Corinthians 5 (NRSV)
  38. 39.
    2 Corinthians 6 (NRSV)
  39. 40.
    2 Corinthians 7 (NRSV)
  40. 41.
    2 Corinthians 8 (NRSV)
  41. 42.
    2 Corinthians 9 (NRSV)
  42. 43.
    2 Corinthians 10 (NRSV)
  43. 44.
    2 Corinthians 11 (NRSV)
  44. 45.
    2 Corinthians 12 (NRSV)
  45. 46.
    2 Corinthians 13 (NRSV)
  46. 47.
    Galatians 1 (NRSV)
  47. 48.
    Galatians 2 (NRSV)
  48. 49.
    Galatians 3 (NRSV)
  49. 50.
    Galatians 4 (NRSV)
  50. 51.
    Galatians 5 (NRSV)
  51. 52.
    Galatians 6 (NRSV)
  52. 53.
    Ephesians 1 (NRSV)
  53. 54.
    Ephesians 2 (NRSV)
  54. 55.
    Ephesians 3 (NRSV)
  55. 56.
    Ephesians 4 (NRSV)
  56. 57.
    Ephesians 5 (NRSV)
  57. 58.
    Ephesians 6 (NRSV)
  58. 59.
    Philippians 1 (NRSV)
  59. 60.
    Philippians 2 (NRSV)
  60. 61.
    Philippians 3 (NRSV)
  61. 62.
    Philippians 4 (NRSV)
  62. 63.
    Colossians 1 (NRSV)
  63. 64.
    Colossians 2 (NRSV)
  64. 65.
    Colossians 3 (NRSV)
  65. 66.
    Colossians 4 (NRSV)
  66. 67.
    1 Thessalonians 1 (NRSV)
  67. 68.
    1 Thessalonians 2 (NRSV)
  68. 69.
    1 Thessalonians 3 (NRSV)
  69. 70.
    1 Thessalonians 4 (NRSV)
  70. 71.
    1 Thessalonians 5 (NRSV)
  71. 72.
    2 Thessalonians 1 (NRSV)
  72. 73.
    2 Thessalonians 2 (NRSV)
  73. 74.
    2 Thessalonians 3 (NRSV)
  74. 75.
    1 Timothy 1 (NRSV)
  75. 76.
    1 Timothy 2 (NRSV)
  76. 77.
    1 Timothy 3 (NRSV)
  77. 78.
    1 Timothy 4 (NRSV)
  78. 79.
    1 Timothy 5 (NRSV)
  79. 80.
    1 Timothy 6 (NRSV)
  80. 81.
    2 Timothy 1 (NRSV)
  81. 82.
    2 Timothy 2 (NRSV)
  82. 83.
    2 Timothy 3 (NRSV)
  83. 84.
    2 Timothy 4 (NRSV)
  84. 85.
    Titus 1 (NRSV)
  85. 86.
    Titus 2 (NRSV)
  86. 87.
    Titus 3 (NRSV)
  87. 88.
    Philemon 1 (NRSV)
  88. 89.
    Hebrews 1 (NRSV)
  89. 90.
    Hebrews 2 (NRSV)
  90. 91.
    Hebrews 3 (NRSV)
  91. 92.
    Hebrews 4 (NRSV)
  92. 93.
    Hebrews 5 (NRSV)
  93. 94.
    Hebrews 6 (NRSV)
  94. 95.
    Hebrews 7 (NRSV)
  95. 96.
    Hebrews 8 (NRSV)
  96. 97.
    Hebrews 9 (NRSV)
  97. 98.
    Hebrews 10 (NRSV)
  98. 99.
    Hebrews 11 (NRSV)
  99. 100.
    Hebrews 12 (NRSV)
  100. 101.
    Hebrews 13 (NRSV)
  101. 102.
    Prescripts
  102. 103.
    A Boy’s Letter
  103. 104.
    Isias to Hephaistion: Time to come home!
  104. 105.
    Letter from Birmingham Jail (HarvardX)
  105. 106.
    Thirty-Ninth Festal Epistle (Concerning the Divine Scriptures)
  106. 107.
    Ecclesiastical History (Book 3, Chapter 25: The Divine Scriptures that are accepted and those that are not)
  107. The Power Of Images
  108. A New New Testament (Introduction)
  109. The Oldest Extant Editions of the Letters of Paul
  110. Selections from “The Preachings of Peter” (Selections from Pseudo-Clement, ”Homilies”)
  111. Histories (4.81)
  112. Tradition and the Canon of Scripture
  113. Antiquities of the Jews (18.1)
  114. The Histories: Book I (Chap. 4)
  115. The Corinthian Body (Chap. 1: The Body in Greco-Roman Culture)
  116. How to Read a Poem (Chap. 1: The Functions of Criticism)
  117. The Histories: Book 1 (Chap. 1-2)
  118. Acts of Paul and Thecla
  119. Slaves In The New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions (Introduction: Imagining Slaves)
  120. A Radical Jew: Paul And The Politics Of Identity (Chap. 9: Paul, the “jewish Problem,” and the ”Woman Question”)
  121. 2 Peter 3 (NRSV)
  122. DAY 13 Philemon 1 (NRSV)
  123. “Ascents of James” (Epiphanius, Pan. haer. 30.16.6-9)
  124. Letter of Paulus Fabius Maximus and Decrees by Asians Concerning the Provincial Calendar
  125. Racial Roots and Religion: An Interview with Howard Thurman
  126. Biblical Views
  127. Poverty in Pauline Studies: Beyond the So-called New Consensus
  128. Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics of Biblical Studies (Chap. 8: Pauline Theology and the Politics of Meaning)
  129. Rituals and Power
  130. The Cerinthians (Epiphanius, 28.5.1-3)
  131. Writings and the Spirit
  132. John 9:1-12 (NSRV)
  133. Irenaeus Against the heresies 1.41.1 on Marcion
  134. Politics (Book I)
  135. Why I Love the Bible
  136. Daniel 2 (NRSV)
  137. Selections of Clementine Recognitions
  138. Paul Among Jews and Gentiles
  139. Paul in Fresh Perspective (Chap. 8: Jesus, Paul and the Task of the Church)
  140. The Jewish War (2.119-166)
  141. A New New Testament (Forward)
  142. HarvardX Student User Guide
  143. Digest (21)
  144. 1 Corinthians: A Case Study of Paul’s Assembly as an Alternative Society
  145. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
  146. The Disappointment
  147. Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics of Biblical Studies (Chap. 4: Challenging the Rhetorical Half-Turn: Feminist and Rhetorical)
  148. A Radical Jew: Paul And The Politics Of Identity (Chap. 10: Answering the Mail Toward a Radical Jewishness)
  149. Of Death
  150. The Wish
  151. The Corinthian Body (Chap. 2: The Rhetoric of the Body Politic)
  152. The Corinthian Women Prophets: A Reconstruction Through Paul’s Letters (Chap. 2: The Rhetoric Characteristic of 1 Corinthians with Implications for the Corinthian Women Prophets)
  153. Slavery in Early Christianity (Body Work: Slavery and the Pauline Churches)
  154. Beyond the Heroic Paul
  155. The Corinthian Women Prophets: A Reconstruction Through Paul’s Letters (Introduction)
  156. Introduction to Poetry Genius
  157. Study Guide for Reading Ancient Sources
  158. The Jewish War (2.254-270)
  159. On Baptism (Chap. XVII: Of the Power of Conferring Baptism)
  160. Paul On Women And Gender
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