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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...

In Pauline writings as in the rest of the NT, “lord” usually translates the Greek term kyrios. The term basically connotes a superiority of the one to whom it is given. When kyrios is used vocatively to address a person (kyrie), it can be a purely respectful gesture, roughly equivalent to the English polite address “sir” or “mister” (Jesus is frequently addressed as kyrie with this sense in the Gospels). The term can also designate a person as “master” of his servants or followers, and was applied
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