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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...

and “son of destruction” (2 Thess 2:3). Paul speak of a woman “being” with a man as a reference to marriage (Rom 7:3, literal translation). Far more telling is Paul’s use of “walk” as a symbol for living; Paul instructs us to walk by faith, to walk in the Spirit, not to walk in darkness and not to walk in disobedience. To apply these conclusions to letter writing, we must consider Paul’s exegetical training as a rabbi, while not neglecting his considerable abilities in Greco-Roman rhetoric. Paul
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