Also important is Deissmann’s book on Paul.16 The English title is descriptive: Paul: A Study in Social and Religious History.17 Again exploiting the new discoveries, Deissmann’s intent is to understand Paul in his historical and geographical setting. Deissmann does not engage in sophisticated sociological analysis, but displays a concern with people and their daily lives, their religious and psychological experience. He studies Paul as a social being, not as a theologian: I mean Paul the Jew, who