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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...

Paul lived and ministered in a cultural environment where the term savior could be ascribed to gods, heroes and humans. Gods such as Zeus, Asclepius, Serapis, Isis and Sandon-Heracles (of Paul’s native Tarsus) could be called “savior” for their reputed ability to deliver from the seasonal “death” of nature or from disease, mortality and other afflictions of life (see Religions). In the Hellenistic ruler cults that followed after Alexander the Great divine honors
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