"This introduction to Paul’s letters is a surprisingly readable entrée into a spectrum of ideological approaches to interpreting biblical texts. I will no doubt adopt this book for my next course on Paul." Most importantly, contributors to this volume write as teachers as well as researchers. The latter aspect is especially helpful since it focuses on approaches that are still seldom covered in most textbooks on biblical criticism, like reading from a spatial and a visual perspective. This book will help readers learn not only about Paul in particular but also how one might approach the New Testament in general. "This is arguably the best and most accessible textbook for a course on reading Paul. I feel I've been waiting for it for a very long time." "Pauline studies, long the most methodologically monolithic and theologically timid area of New Testament studies, bursts out of its shell with this textbook. I can think of no other collection suitable as supplementary readings for students that so effectively unites these various goals." These essays will not only provoke conversation about difference in perspective, but also reveal the multiple ways that seemingly disparate approaches still often intertwine. "The essays in Studying Paul’s Letters, each written by a first-tier scholar, manage to demonstrate cutting-edge Pauline scholarship in ways that remain highly accessible for beginning students.
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