Study about the book of Philemon
Paul's Letter to Philemon Name : Naomi Fortuna 1. My Pre-Understanding of the text First, my preunderstanding of the text, I heard some sermon which talk about a slave whose name is Onesimus run away from his master and become Christian because of Paul's ministry in the prison. The letter of Philemon pictures out about the relationship between a Christian master and a Christian slave (especially in the context of a run away slave and forgiveness from a master to a slave). In this exegese paper, I try to reconstruct the problem behind the letter by reading this text by study the words, find the support from other Paul's writings especially his teaching related to the relation between master and slave (Collosians, Galatian). I also try to search the data about slavery in NT (and just a small portion of OT), and compare this data with the context of slavery in first century Roman's society world. 2. ...