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Many surviving early Christian writings are in the form of letters, some sent by and to those named, others imagined. What did the authors, copyists, and later collectors intend by authoring or reworking letters, as opposed to other genres? How did the first or subsequent readers respond, differently perhaps than to a novel or history? In her Radboud Prestige Lectures in New Testament, published in this volume, Judith Lieu explores these questions by drawing on the concept of ‘epistolarity.’ Her lectures are followed by chapters by leading experts in the field who engage her work from different angles, finding points of contact and potential conversation between different texts and authors, together with possibilities for further exploration and application.

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Judith M. Lieu is Lady Margaret's Professor Emerita at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. Matthijs den Dulk is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at Radboud University and Academic Director of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion.

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