Faithlife StaffAdded the following to the Bibliography under The New Perspective on Paul: Cornelis P. Venema’s Getting the Gospel Right: Assessing the Reformation and New Perspectives on Paul (a Calvinist critique) and E.P. Sanders’ Paul: A Very Short...
Updated the link to Paul’s Contradictions — Can They Be Resolved? by John G. Gager under the Articles section of Paul Wthin Judaism.
Book Review James D.G. Dunn, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011, 221 pp. The back cover promotes this book as a “compact theological primer,” a description that could be improved in accuracy as “compact biblical theological primer.” This monograph is a...
Earlier today The Huffington Post published an article by filmmaker Robert Orlando titled A Polite Bribe: A New Narrative for Paul and the Early Church? For more information about Orlando’s documentary and a list of scholars featured in the...
Added James S. Hanson’s review of Paul: A Guide for the Perplexed by Timothy G. Gombis to the Book Reviews section under The New Perspective on Paul: Around the Web and added the book to the Bibliography.
Added a link to An Offstage Perspective on the NPP by John G. Krivak in the category Around the Web: On The New Perspective.
Book Review Arland J. Hultgren, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011, 834 pp. Many New Testament scholars could be pressured to write a commentary on Paul’s epistle to Rome “because,” to paraphrase George Mallory, “it’s there.” For a noted scholar like...
Added Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels by James D.G. Dunn to the Bibliography.
Book Review Bernard Brandon Scott, editor, Polebridge Press, 2011, 94 pp. As the Jesus Seminar now begins to engage the questions of the historical Paul, the Polebridge Press Jesus Seminar Guides study series has published its first collection of...
Book Review Arthur J. Dewey, Roy W. Hoover, Lane C. McGaughy, and Daryl D. Schmidt, Polebridge Press, 2010, 270 pp. Those who appreciated the fresh and edgy translation of the Scholars Version of the Gospels will be thrilled with the Westar...
And now for something completely different! Whoever said that biblical studies can’t be fun? Indulge in the lighter side of faith with Mark Mattison’s new e-book, Bible Puns: 100 Original Jokes, now available for only $2.99! In this...
Book Review Bruce W. Longenecker, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2010, 400 pp. It is widely agreed that the apostle Paul’s theological reflections had little to do with social structures and economic issues. This consensus, however, is increasingly being...
Eliminated some dead links and updated the links to Apocalypsis and Polis: Pauline Reflections on the Theological Politics of Yoder, Hauerwas, and Milbank by Douglas Harink, N.T. Wright and New Insights on Paul by Jerry Bowyer, and Paul’s...
Added Bruce W. Longenecker’s Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Greco-Roman World to the Bibliography page under Paul and Empire. Hope to put up a book review soon.
Book Review Kent L. Yinger, Cascade Books, 2011, 120 pp. Kent L. Yinger’s The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction is as accessible as it is academically sound. In only 120 pages he outlines and illustrates nearly every aspect of the new...
Added The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction by Kent L. Yinger and Paul Unbound: Other Perspectives on the Apostle by Mark D. Given to the bibliographies. Thanks to Mark Nanos for the tip.
Updated the link to God, Israel, and the Gentiles: Rhetoric and Situation in Romans 9-11 by Johann D. Kim as reviewed by Mark D. Nanos in Catholic Biblical Quarterly. In addition, we have finally broken out a new category labeled Paul Within...
Mark Goodacre has just announced on his NT Blog that Eisenbrauns has launched a new academic journal. Edited by Michael Bird, the new journal is the Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters (JSPL). A sample copy can be downloaded here in PDF...
Book Review Richard A. Brown, Blue Springs, Missouri: Isaac’s Press, 2010, 130 pp. Considering the fact that the new perspective on Paul is not so “new” anymore, the lack of popular study material on the topic is perplexing. Richard A. Brown’s...
The Transformation and Weaving of Scripture in 1 Corinthians In view of work already done on biblical use of older texts, including Paul’s use of Scripture, it seems appropriate that further exploration of Paul be especially attentive to two...
Added links to the following papers by Mark D. Nanos under the category From the New Perspective (thanks to Mark for providing the links): ‘Broken Branches’: A Pauline Metaphor Gone Awry? (Romans 11:11-24) ‘Callused,’ Not ‘Hardened’: Paul’s...
Updated the link to Michael B. Thompson’s The New Perspective on Paul.
Updated the links to Mark D. Nanos’ A Rejoinder to Robert A.J. Gagnon’s “Why the ‘Weak’ at Rome Cannot Be Non-Christian Jews”, Paul and Judaism, The Local Contexts of the Galatians: Toward Resolving A Catch-22, and The Social Context and...
Second Corinthians by Thomas D. Stegman has been added to the Bibliography. A link has also been added to a review by Raymond F. Collins in the Review of Biblical Literature in the category Around the Web: Book Reviews.
Added Walking in Their Sandals: A Guide to First-Century Israelite Identity by Markus Cromhout to the Bibliography.
Normally I post only information on Pauline studies here, but I’d like to let everyone know about my new young adult sci fi novel, Commander Chris and the Mystical Orb. It’s being printed right now and will be available in bookstores...
Added a link to Interview With “The Paul Page” Creator: Mark Mattison, Pt. 2 on Seth Odom’s View Of The Other World blog in the category Around the Web: On the New Perspective.
Added a link to Seth Odom’s Interview With “The Paul Page” Creator: Mark Mattison on his blog View Of The Other World in the category Around the Web: On the New Perspective.
Approaches to Paul: A Student’s Guide to Recent Scholarship by Magnus Zetterholm has been added to the Bibliography. Links have also been added to reviews by Nijay Gupta and David G. Horrell in the Review of Biblical Literature in the category...
by Mark Reasoner, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN AAR/SBL Meeting, November 18, 2006, Washington, DC The gospel, which Paul celebrated and described in his letters, certainly has a political edge to it, since Paul describes this gospel’s effects...