Paul and His Recent Interpreters (2015 Wright), book

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Paul and His Recent Interpreters: Some Contemporary Debates (2015) is a book by Nicholas Thomas Wright.

Abstract

"This companion volume to N. T,. Wright's Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Pauline Perspectives is essential reading for all with a serious interest in Paul, the interpretation of his letters, his appropriation by subsequent thinkers, and his continuing significance today. In the course of this masterly survey, Wright asks searching questions of the major contributors to Pauline studies in the last fifty years."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2015.

Contents

  • Part I. Paul among Jews and Gentiles? Setting the stage ; The theological questions ; The New Perspective and beyond ; Life after Sanders ; "The old is better"?
  • Part II. Re-enter 'apocalyptic'. The strange career of 'apocalyptic' ; From Käsemann to Beker ; The 'Union School'? : De Boer and Martyn ; An apocalyptic rereading of Romans? : Douglas Campbell
  • Part III. Paul in his world - and ours? Social history and the Pauline communities ; Social study, social ethics : Meeks and Horrell ; Paul in the marketplace : towards a wider context?

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