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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...

. There are “apostles before” Paul (Gal 1:17) located in Jerusalem. It is clear from Paul’s reflection on his apostolic call en route to Damascus, which we may date in the mid thirties, that there were apostles from earliest times in the primitive church, indeed from the time of the first Easter (“Christ … appeared … to all the apostles,” 1 Cor 15:8). Were there apostles after Paul? Is there a historical point after which, according to Paul, there were no apostles? 1 Corinthians 15:5–11 bears