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4 - The Life and Letters of Paul

from Part I - Historical Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

By
Margaret M. Mitchell
Edited by
Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray
Affiliation:
Rhodes College, Memphis
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Summary

This chapter introduces introduce the critical issues in the study of Paul and his letters, including the problems to be solved in historical reconstructions of his ministry, the standard approaches to determining the authorship of the letters, his place within the Judaism of his time, and the so-called “New Perspective” on Paul.

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Apostle PaulEpistlesPseudonymityActs of the ApostlesNew Perspective on Paul
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The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament , pp. 73 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Fredriksen, Paula. Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Gray, Patrick. Paul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuries. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016.Google Scholar
Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Mitchell, Margaret M. Paul and the Emergence of Christian Textuality. Early Christian Literary Culture in Context. WUNT 393. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.Google Scholar
Mitchell, Margaret M. Paul, the Corinthians, and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Novenson, Matthew A. Christ among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Roetzel, Calvin J. The Letters of Paul: Conversations in Context. 6th ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2015.Google Scholar
Sanders, E. P. Paul: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977.Google Scholar
Stendahl, Krister. Paul among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.Google Scholar
Wendt, Heidi. At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.Google Scholar

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