Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Map
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Historical Context
- 1 The Social and Political Milieu
- 2 The Religious and Philosophical Milieu
- 3 The Historical Jesus
- 4 The Life and Letters of Paul
- Part II The New Testament Writings
- Part III Methods and Modes of Interpretation
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
4 - The Life and Letters of Paul
from Part I - Historical Context
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Map
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Historical Context
- 1 The Social and Political Milieu
- 2 The Religious and Philosophical Milieu
- 3 The Historical Jesus
- 4 The Life and Letters of Paul
- Part II The New Testament Writings
- Part III Methods and Modes of Interpretation
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
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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- The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament , pp. 73 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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Further Reading
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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