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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...

forms of Christianity that eventually triumphed were Greek-speaking and gentile in orientation. Only relatively less advanced traces of “Jewish Christianity” and “Judeo-Christianity,” that is, movements more closely linked to traditional Jewish observance, emerge within the New Testament canon, which consists entirely of documents written in Greek.12 This is not to say that the picture of Paul arising from the New Testament texts alone is one that Paul would have painted—far from it. The portraits
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