Pauline scholars have rightly explored at great length Paul’s soteriology, Christology, and pneumatology and his views of Israel and Scripture. Yet even among the fewer discussions of Pauline anthropology, very rarely have scholars devoted extensive attention to his view of the mind,1 especially in a way that explains how he may have shaped his language to communicate to his contemporaries. More recent insights into this subject by scholars conversant in ancient philosophy, such as Stanley