both the extent of Paul’s corpus and the meanings of ‘the law’, and are exacerbated with numerous problems of interpretation of the key texts, decisions about which lead to vastly differing syntheses of Paul’s teaching. Like a big jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing, and the box lid thrown out, there seem to be numerous possible configurations, none of which fits every piece. Some doubt whether Paul himself knew what he was talking about. Those who write about Paul and the law are typically