Some of the resources on the author's bookshelf.
Tom Faletti
October 4, 2025
Major Sources
Ashby, Earnest G. “Philemon.” The International Bible Commentary: With the New International Version. F.F. Bruce, General Editor. Marshall Pickering/Zondervan, 1986.
Barclay, William. The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon. The Westminster Press, Revised Edition, 1975.
Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction to the New Testament. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
Dunnam, Maxie D. Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, & Philemon. The Communicator’s Commentary (Mastering the New Testament), Lloyd J. Ogilvie, general editor. Word Books, 1982.
Fitzmyer, Joseph A., S.J. “Philemon.” The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Edited by Raymond E. Brown, et al. Prentice Hall, 1990.
Havener, Ivan, OSB. First Thessalonians, Philippians, Philemon, Second Thessalonians, Colossians, Ephesians. Collegeville Bible Commentary, The Liturgical Press, 1983.
Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: The New Testament, Revised Standard Edition, Second Catholic Edition. Ignatius Press, 2010.
Interlinear Bible. Bible Hub, https://biblehub.com/interlinear/.
Liddell, Henry George and Robert Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, Founded Upon the Seventh Edition of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899. For the full Lexicon from 1940 available online, see A Greek-English Lexicon, Furman Classics Editions, http://folio2.furman.edu/lsj/ or A Greek-English Lexicon, Internet Archive, Volume I: https://archive.org/details/b31364949_0001/mode/2up and Volume II: https://archive.org/details/b31364949_0002/mode/2up.
New American Bible, revised edition (NABRE). Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, 2010. Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary. Edited by Raymond E. Brown, et al. Prentice Hall, 1990.
The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version: With the Apocrypha: An Ecumenical Study Bible. Eds. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Z. Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, and Pheme Perkins. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2010.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance. Bible Hub, https://biblehub.com/greek/21.htm.
Vine, William E. Vine’s Expository Dictionary, 1940, StudyLight.org, https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/ved.html.
Additional Sources
The British Museum. “Slavery in ancient Rome.” Exhibition: “Nero the man behind the myth,” 2021. The British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/nero-man-behind-myth/slavery-ancient-rome.
Coleman-Norton, Paul Robinson. “The Apostle Paul and the Roman Law of Slavery.” Studies in Roman economic and social history. Coleman-Norton, Paul Robinson, editor. Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, N.Y., 1969, 155-177. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/studiesinromanec0000cole/page/155.
Ignatius of Antioch. “The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians.” Translated by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Christian Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, NY, 1885. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. New Advent, http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0104.htm.
Orthodox Church in America. “Apostle Onesimus of the Seventy.” Orthodox Church in America, https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2018/02/15/100526-apostle-onesimus-of-the-seventy.
Welch, John W. and John F Hall. “Chart 6-4: Estimated Distribution of Citizenship in the Roman Empire.” Charting the New Testament, BYU Studies, 2002, https://byustudies.byu.edu/further-study-chart/6-4-estimated-distribution-of-citizenship-in-the-roman-empire/.
White, Joel. “The Imprisonment That Could Have Happened (and the Letters Paul Could Have Written There): A Response to Ben Witherington.” JETS 61.3 (2018), 549–558, https://etsjets.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/files_JETS-PDFs_61_61-3_JETS_61.3_549-558_White.pdf.
Witherington, Ben III. “The Case of the Imprisonment That Did Not Happen: Paul at Ephesus.” JETS 60/3 (2017), 525–532, https://etsjets.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/files_JETS-PDFs_60_60-3_JETS_60_3-525-532_Witherington.pdf.
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