Elsa Tamez is a Mexican-Costarrican New Testament biblical scholar. She is a member of the Methodist church and is professor emerita and former rector of the Latin American Biblical University. She earned her ThD at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her most recent publications include Struggles for Power in Early Christianity (2007); No discriminen a los pobres. Lectura de Santiago (2008); El Nuevo Testamento, Palabra por Palabra, interlineal griego-español (2012). Among the awards she has received are Prix de Faculté: Université de Lausanne (1990); Award of Excellence in Biblical Interpretation, twice (1996, 1997); Hans-Sigrist Award, University of Bern, Switzerland (2000), for her contribution to contextual biblical hermeneutics.

Contents

List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword: "Come Eat of My Bread . . . and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom" Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Editor's Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: "She Is a Breath of the Power of God" (Wis 7:25) Barbara E. Reid, OP

Author's Introduction to Philippians
Philippians 1:1-26 Greetings, Prayers, and Prison
Philippians 1:27-3:1 Causes, Struggles, and Plans
Philippians 3:2-4:3 What Really Matters
Philippians 4:4-23 Words of Gratitude and Farewell
Conclusion

Authors' Introduction to Colossians
Colossians 1:1-2:5 Greetings, Prayers, and Paul
Colossians 2:6-23 Warning against Practices
Colossians 3:1-4:1 Exhortation to Those Who Are in Christ
Colossians 4:2-18 Further Exhortations and Greetings

Author's Introduction to Philemon
Philemon 1-18 Allies and Tension
Philemon 19-25 The Silence of Onesimus
Conclusion

Philippians Works Cited
Colossians Works Cited
Philemon Works Cited
Index of Scripture References
Index of Subjects