Colossians and Philemon

263 Pages·1988·98.093 MB·English

by  Eduard Lohse

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Hermeneia
- A Critical
and Historical
Commentary
on the Bible
Old Testament Editorial Board
Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University, chairman
Klaus Baltzer, University of Munich
Paul D. Hanson, Harvard University
S. Dean McBride, Jr., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
Peter Machinist, Harvard University
Susan Niditch, Amherst College
Christopher R. Seitz, Yale University
Roland E. Murphy, 0. Carm., emeritus
New Testament Editorial Board
Helmut Koester, Harvard University, chairman
Harold W. Attridge, University of Notre Dame
Adela Yarbro Collins, University of Chicago
Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University
James M. Robinson, Claremont Graduate School
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Colossians and Philemon
A Commentary on the Epistles to
the Colossians and to
Philemon
by Eduard Lohse
Translated by
William R. Poehlmann and
Robert J. Karris
Edited by
Helmut Koester
Fortress
Press Philadelphia
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Translated from the German Die Brieje an die Kolosser
und an Philemon (1st edition) by Eduard Lohse.
Kritisch-Exegetischer Kommentar iiber das Neue
Testament begriindet von Heinrich August Wil
helm Meyer, 14. Auflage. C Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, Gottingen, 1968.
© 1971 in the English translation
by Fortress Press
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-157550
ISBN 0-8006-6001-3
Printed in the United States of America 1-6001
Type set by Maurice Jacobs, Inc., Philadelphia
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MEMORIAE
FRATRIS DILECTISSIMI
WALTER LOHSE
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EREPTUS EST NOBIS
PRAEMATURA MORTE
ANNO SUAE AETATIS XVIII
VOCATUS ULTIMAM IN HORAM
ANNO DOMINI MCMXLIIII
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The Author
Eduard Lohse became Bishop of the Lutheran Church
of Hannover, Germany, in 1.971. Earlier he had been
Professor of New Testament Theology at the University
of Gottingen. A contributor to Kittel's Theological Dic
tionary of the New Testament, he has also published Miirtyrer
und Gottesknecht (1955), Israel und die Christenheit (1960),
Das Argernis des Kreuzes (1969), and, in English, History of
the Suffering and Death of Jesus Christ (1967).