The letters of Paul : conversations in context /
Roetzel, Calvin J.
The letters of Paul : conversations in context / Calvin J. Roetzel. - Sixth edition. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Contrary impressions -- Paul and his Hellenistic world -- Paul and his Jewish world -- The anatomy of the letters -- Traditions behind the letters -- The letters as conversations -- Paul and his myths -- New Testament interpreters of Paul -- Currents and crosscurrents.
"This is the sixth edition of the classic textbook that has been introducing Paul and his writing to seminary and undergraduate students for over forty years. Roetzel provides a comprehensive look at Paul in light of recent scholarship and theological understandings of Paul. This new edition includes four brand-new sections on the following: the chronology of Paul's letters; Paul's concept of "law" in the context of messianic expectation; the religious and political contexts in which Paul's letters were written; and Jewish understandings of Gentiles and Paul's mission to include them among the elect of God. This long-established textbook is the ideal choice for any student of Paul"--
9781611645491 1611645492
99965144721
Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Textbooks.
05000BS2650.55 / .R64 2015
227/.06
The letters of Paul : conversations in context / Calvin J. Roetzel. - Sixth edition. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Contrary impressions -- Paul and his Hellenistic world -- Paul and his Jewish world -- The anatomy of the letters -- Traditions behind the letters -- The letters as conversations -- Paul and his myths -- New Testament interpreters of Paul -- Currents and crosscurrents.
"This is the sixth edition of the classic textbook that has been introducing Paul and his writing to seminary and undergraduate students for over forty years. Roetzel provides a comprehensive look at Paul in light of recent scholarship and theological understandings of Paul. This new edition includes four brand-new sections on the following: the chronology of Paul's letters; Paul's concept of "law" in the context of messianic expectation; the religious and political contexts in which Paul's letters were written; and Jewish understandings of Gentiles and Paul's mission to include them among the elect of God. This long-established textbook is the ideal choice for any student of Paul"--
9781611645491 1611645492
99965144721
Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Textbooks.
05000BS2650.55 / .R64 2015
227/.06