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The Making of Paul: Constructions of the Apostle in Early Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

The influence of the apostle Paul in early Christianity goes far beyond the reach of the seven genuine letters he wrote to early assemblies. Paul was revered–and fiercely opposed–in an even larger number of letters penned in his name, and in narratives told about him and against him, that were included in our New Testament and, far more often, treasured and circulated outside it. Richard Pervo...

in the contingent, historical circumstances of his seven undisputed—but not integral—letters,10 with greater or lesser supplements from Acts. Paul, like his Lord, was not betrayed by external enemies but from within the circle of his own students who sold out his theology while concocting letters in his name, as well as other texts relating to him. NOW THERE IS more than a little truth, if little nuance, in this caricature, but it is not without flaws. The dual impact of Christian ecumenism and postmodernism
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