The Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies

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ID24205999
EditorsMatthew V Novenson (University of Edinburgh), R BARRY MATLOCK (Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
Year2022
Publication date2022-04-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600489.001.0001
ISBN9780199600489
Open LibraryOL36273796M
LanguageEN
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This is a handbook of Pauline studies—meaning, for our purposes, the whole field of research around the apostle Paul, the authentic texts (more or less) from his own hand, other ancients texts falsely attributed to him, the numerous early Christian legends about him, and the many meanings that have been and still are made of these texts. The goal of the book is to give an early twenty-first-century snapshot of what we collectively know about all of this, embracing the big tent of Pauline studies and supplying the reader with expert tour guides to its many corners. The book is subdivided into five main sections. Part I: Paul the Person is largely biographical, sketching a life of Paul himself to the limited extent that it is possible to do so. Part II: Paul in Context takes a wider-angle perspective on numerous aspects of Paul’s ancient Mediterranean context. Part III: Pauline Literature takes a turn to the literary, looking in detail at the letters, manuscripts, and canons that constitute most of our extant evidence for the apostle. Part IV: Pauline Theology examines a number of classic motifs in what moderns have called ‘Pauline theology’. Finally, Part V: Approaches to Paul considers the many productive reading strategies with which recent interpreters have made meaning of the letters of Paul. It is demonstrated that ‘reading Paul’ is not, and never has been, just one thing. It has always been a matter of the particular questions and interests that the reader brings to these very generative texts.

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