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The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. Following the format of its highly successful companion volume, the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, this Dictionary is designed to bring students, teachers, ministers and laypeople abreast of the established conclusions and significant recent developments in Pauline scholarship. No other single reference works...

Nearly two-thirds (100 of 154) of the NT occurrences of charis, normally translated “grace,” are found in the Pauline letters. The term is found in all thirteen of the traditional Pauline letters, and is heavily clustered in Romans (twenty-three times) and the Corinthian letters (eighteen times in 2 Cor; ten times in 1 Cor). In Pauline usage the word charis carries the basic sense of “favor” (cf. Heb ḥēn, “favor,” and ḥeseḏ, “loving kindness,” in the OT; see Esser, Conzelmann), and when
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