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IN MEMORY OF ONESIMUS

 

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IN MEMORY OF ONESIMUS:
Reading Philemon inside a Jeepney
Reading Philemon inside a Jeepney involves privileging Onesimus. Not Paul. Nor Philemon. Paul describes Onesimus as useless in the epistle. But “useless” is a relative term. The tens of thousands of rusted military jeeps the US Army thought useless at the end of World War II in the Philippines, Filipinos found useful as raw materials for what was to become the most popular mode of mass transportation in the islands, the jeepney...

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