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This comprehensive introduction to Paul by a leading European scholar, proceeding on the basis of the rootedness of the apostle’s letters in particular concrete circumstances, carefully lays out what can be known of those circumstances on the basis of the available evidence. It then interprets the letters in light of their life setting en route to a comprehensive and coherent description of...

We must begin with a reconstruction of the events prior to Paul’s arrival in Corinth. In the Acts account Paul’s stay in Corinth was part of the great Pauline mission in Asia Minor and Greece (the second missionary journey of Acts 15:36–18:22). We can reconstruct a list of individual missionary stations on the basis of the traditions reworked by Luke. Their journey first took Paul and Silas to the congregations that already exist in Syria and Cilicia (cf. Acts 15:40–41; also
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