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Studying Paul’s Letters provides a survey of the most relevant current methods in Pauline scholarship. Joseph A. Marchal leads a group of scholars who are also experienced teachers in courses on Paul. More than a series of “how-to” essays in interpretation, each chapter in this volume shows how differences in starting point and interpretive decisions shape different ways of understanding Paul....

margins, metropolis and periphery. As a result, biblical scholar Fernando Segovia distinguishes between imperialism as that which concerns the center or metropolis and colonialism as that which is related to the margins or periphery. This corresponds to Said’s way of defining the two concepts, where imperialism is “the practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan city ruling a distant territory,” while colonialism is a consequence of imperialism and is specifically about “the
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