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  • 1 - What Do We Find in Paul’s Letters?

  • from Part I - Paul, Letters and Communities
  • Edited by Bruce W. Longenecker, Baylor University, Texas
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul
    Published online:
    19 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 3-22

  • Summary

    This essay introduces the study of Paul and his letters to a non-specialist audience, overviewing the main issues that require negotiation and consideration whenever Paul’s letters are studied, including sections entitled: Why did Paul write letters? What letters did Paul write? Did other people contribute to Paul’s letters? To what extent is Paul’s discourse stable? How much do we know about Paul’s life? and To what extent can we make use of Acts?

The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul
  • Edited by Bruce W. Longenecker
  • Published online:
    19 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020
  • St Paul was a pivotal and controversial figure in the fledgling Jesus movement of the first century. The New Cambridge Companion to St Paul provides an invaluable entryway into the study of Paul and his letters. Composed of sixteen essays by an international team of scholars, it explores some of the key issues in the current study of his dynamic and demanding theological discourse. The volume first examines Paul's life and the first-century context in which he and his communities lived. Contributors then analyze particular writings by comparing and contrasting at least two selected letters, while thematic essays examine topics of particular importance, including how Paul read scripture, his relation to Judaism and monotheism, why his message may have been attractive to first-century audiences, how his message was elaborated in various ways in the first four centuries, and how his theological discourse might relate to contemporary theological discourse and ideological analysis today.