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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...

From the Corinthian correspondence it is clear that knowledge held an important place in the minds of many within that congregation. Paul acknowledged the richness of their endowment with knowledge of all kinds (1 Cor 1:5), and he noted that the Corinthians excelled in knowledge, among other things (2 Cor 8:7), but within the Corinthian context knowledge was being abused. It had come to be identified ipso facto as a badge of spirituality, which only certain Corinthians enjoyed.
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