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Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters, and Theology, 2nd ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

For some of us, the apostle Paul is intimidating, like a distant and difficult uncle. Maybe not someone you’d like to hang out with at a coffee shop on a rainy day. He’d make a scene, evangelize the barista, and arouse looks across the room. For a mid-morning latte, we’d prefer Jesus over Paul. But Paul is actually the guy who—from Ephesus to Athens—was the talk of the marketplace, the raconteur...

them to a secretary verbatim. This meant that the vocabulary, style, and kinds of theological expressions in his letters should reflect a single author’s mind. Letters were compared and those noticeably different in vocabulary and style were declared inauthentic: Paul did not write them. For a number of reasons, some scholars decided that Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, and Galatians were the genuine letters of Paul. Letters that shared the same style, manner of argument, and themes—particularly
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