Research Guides: RELG 215: The Letters of Paul (HC) Fall 2024: Relevant Books

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Clicking on these subject terms will run a search for other items in that category. You may also use the Advanced Search feature in Tripod to search for them, and can specify your search by, for example, combining different subject terms together. For example:

Relevant subject headings include (but are not limited to):

Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Bible Epistles of Paul
- Bible Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible Corinthians
Bible Ephesians
Bible Philippians
Church history -- Primitive and early church
Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
God (Christianity) -- History of doctrines -- Early church
Greek literature -- Relation to the New Testament
Apostles
Christian literature, early
Classical letters
Rhetoric, Ancient
Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Eschatology
Nature -- Religious aspects

Using the Advanced Search feature in Tripod, you may combine these subject terms together. This is especially important when searching with terms that are not specific to Paul, Christianity, etc.

The books featured below are samples of results from these subject heading searches in Tripod.

The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul by Bruce W. Longenecker (Editor)
ISBN: 9781108423700

Publication Date: 2020-07-02

This collection first examines Paul's life and the first-century context in which he and his communities lived. Contributors then analyze particular writings comparatively, while thematic essays examine topics such as how Paul read scripture, his relation to Judaism and monotheism, why his message may have been attractive to first-century audiences, and how his message was elaborated in various ways in the first four centuries.
The Corruption and Redemption of Creation: Nature in Romans 8.19-22 and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature by Harry Hahne
Call Number: BS2665.52 .H34 2006

ISBN: 0567030555

Publication Date: 2007-01-23

Suggests that although Romans 8:19-22 was not written in the genre of an apocalypse, it shares the basic apocalyptic world view. A comparison of nature in Jewish apocalypses and Romans 8:19-22 reveals important insights into the theology of early Judaism and its influence on early Christian thought.
A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul by Isaac Soon
ISBN: 9780192885432

Publication Date: 2023

This book breaks new ground in approaching Paul the Apostle as a disabled person. Readers will learn about contemporary perspectives on disability and encounter a rich variety of ancient sources related to three of Paul's disabilities: circumcision, demonization, and short stature (possibly dwarfism).
Keys to Second Corinthians by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
ISBN: 9780199592104

Publication Date: 2010-11-19

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's reputation as a recognized expert on the Corinthian correspondence has been built on the original solutions he has offered to perennial problems. Brought together for the first time in one volume, each of the twelve articles anthologised here deals with a complex aspect of interpretation for 2 Corinthians. Whether addressing the interpretation of a particular passage, the question of co-authorship, or the relation of the epistle to other texts, Murphy-O'Connor presents his evidence in a characteristically clear and incisive style. A newly written 'reception history' has been appended to each article to bring the collection up to date with the latest research on the epistle. This is a companion volume to Keys to First Corinthians , also available from Oxford University Press.
Appalling Bodies: Queer Figures Before and After Paul's Letters by Joseph A. Marchal
Call Number: BS2655.S49 M37 2020

ISBN: 9780190060312

Publication Date: 2019-12-09

Paul's letters repeat ancient stereotypes about women, eunuchs, slaves, and barbarians - in their Roman imperial setting, each of these overlapping groups were cast as debased, dangerous, and complicated. This volume presents new ways to think about these dangers and complications with the help of queer theory.
Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles by Joseph A. Marchal (Editor)
Call Number: BS410 .S455

ISBN: 9781628372250

Publication Date: 2018-08-31

Essays in this collection explore gender, sexuality, and embodiment as well as their intersections with and as dynamics of empire and economy, race and ethnicity, religion and nationality, animality and disability.
A Companion to the New Testament: Paul and the Pauline Letters by Matthew L. Skinner
Call Number: BS2650.52 .S550 2018

ISBN: 9781481307833

Publication Date: 2018-02-28

This second volume of the Companion to the New Testament focuses on Paul and the thirteen letters in the New Testament attributed to him. Readers learn that the letters provided specific pastoral and practical instruction to ancient Christian communities. The letters make their case by relying upon and appealing to a range of theological convictions, usually focusing on who God is, what God accomplishes through Jesus Christ, and the new existence that believers now inhabit.
Paul and the Second Century by Michael F. Bird (Editor); Joseph R. Dodson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780567158277

Publication Date: 2011-07-07

Looks at the influence the writings of the Apostle Paul had in the second century examining the Pauline corpus in conjunction with key second century figures and texts.
Documents and Images for the Study of Paul by Neil Elliott; Mark Reasoner (Editor)
ISBN: 0800663756

Publication Date: 2011

Gathers representative texts illustrating Jewish practices, Greco-Roman moral exhortation, biblical interpretation, Roman ideology, apocalyptic visions, epistolary conventions, and more to illustrate the complex cultural environment in which Paul carried out his apostolic work and the manifold ways in which his legacy was reshaped in early Christianity.
Paul's Eschatological Anthropology: The Dynamics of Human Transformation by Sarah Harding
ISBN: 1506406068

Publication Date: 2016-02-01

Examines Paul's anthropology from the perspective of eschatology, concluding that the apostle's view of humans is a function of his belief that the cosmos evolves through distinct aeons in progress toward its telos.
How to Read Paul: A Brief Introduction to his Theology, Writings, and World by Yung Suk Kim
ISBN: 1506471447

Publication Date: 2021-04-13

Through an analysis of Paul's undisputed letters, this text explores and explains Paul's key theological concepts and situates them in their proper cultural context.

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A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity by Daniel Boyarin
ISBN: 0520085922

Publication Date: 1994-10-14
The Apostle Paul and His Letters: An Introduction by James B. Prothro; Thomas D. Stegman
ISBN: 0813235138

Publication Date: 2022-01-28

Offers an introduction to Paul's background, life, and legacy; another to ancient letter writing; a guide to understanding Paul's theology; a survey of the portrait of Paul in the Book of Acts; separate treatments of each letter's background and purpose; treatments of key theological topics in each letter and a thorough outline of each letter showing its arguments and how they make sense.
Paul within Judaism: Perspectives on Paul and Jewish Identity by Michael Bird (Editor); Ruben A. Bühner (Editor); Jörg Frey (Editor); Brian Rosner (Editor)
ISBN: 3161623258

Publication Date: 2023-07-01

The essays in this volume take up many of the key questions germane to scholarly debates about Paul's relationship with Judaism, including different perspectives on Jewish identity, ethnicity, Torah-observance, halakha, the relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish followers of Christ, and the contested character of Jewish identity in antiquity.
Paul among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays by Krister Stendahl
ISBN: 0800612248

Publication Date: 1976-08-01

A collection of essays exploring issues in Pauline studies, including a sharp challenge to traditional ways of understanding Paul in the title essay.
A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald by Matthew Thiessen
ISBN: 9781493441761

Publication Date: 2023-08-22

An accessible introduction that situates Paul clearly within first-century Judaism rather than opposed to it. Thiessen argues for a more historically plausible reading of Paul. Paul did not reject Judaism or the Jewish law but believed he was living in the last days, when Israel's Messiah would deliver the nations from sin and death. Paul saw himself as an envoy to the nations, desiring to introduce them to the Messiah and his life-giving, life-transforming Spirit.
Perspectives on Paul: Five Views by Scot McKnight (Editor); B. J. Oropeza (Editor); Dennis Edwards (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9781493427321

Publication Date: 2020-10-27

This five-views work brings together an all-star lineup of Pauline scholars to offer a constructive, interdenominational, up-to-date conversation on key issues of Pauline theology. The editors begin with an informative recent history of biblical tradition related to the perspectives on Paul.
The Writings of St. Paul by Saint Paul; Wayne A. Meeks (Editor); John T. Fitzgerald (Editor)
ISBN: 9780393972801

Publication Date: 2007-04-02

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition includes an entirely new introduction to Paul and the central issues surrounding his writings, as well as several newly included sections of writings from Paul's time to the present.
Paul: The Pagan's Apostle by Paula Fredriksen
ISBN: 0300225881

Publication Date: 2017-08-22

Only by situating Paul within his charged social context of gods and humans, pagans and Jews, cities, synagogues, and competing Christ-following assemblies can we begin to understand his mission and message. With this in view, original and provocative book offers a dramatically new perspective on one of history's seminal figures.
Paul Within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle by Mark D. Nanos (Editor); Magnus Zetterholm (Editor)
ISBN: 1451494289

Publication Date: 2015-01-01

A group of renowned international scholars seek to describe Paul and his work from "within Judaism," rather than on the assumption, still current even after thirty years of the "New Perspective," that in practice Paul left behind aspects of Jewish living after his discovery of Jesus as Christ (Messiah).

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