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

For some of us, the Apostle Paul is like a distant uncle. We’ve heard he’s pretty important. We’ve read the good parts of his letters. But sometimes he comes across as prickly and unpredictable. Not someone you’d like to hang out with at a coffee shop. He’d raise his voice, try to convert the barista, and we’d want to slink out the back door. For a mid-afternoon latte, we’d prefer Jesus over...

to pass on a word of greeting, as in “Greet your mother” (PTebt. 412). Sometimes a third party sent greetings, such as in “Apollos greets you” (PMich. 8.514). Usually the list of greetings is relatively short, a line or two. However, long lists of greetings are not unknown.4 Paul included words of greeting in most of his letters. He used generic greetings, such as “Greet every saint in Christ Jesus” (Phil 4:21) or “Greet all the brothers and sisters with a holy kiss” (1 Thess 5:26), as well as named
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