Exploring the sometimes heated exchanges found in the letters of Paul, Calvin Roetzel compares Paul's Jewish background and the cultures of his converts. Roetzel brings alive Paul's intriguing and sometimes enigmatic personality, making his theology as accessible and engaging to Christians today as it was to Christians living in the first century.
This guy is one the preimminent Pauline Scholars this country has produced. Essential reading. This one sets the historiography, philology, linguistics & theology to a rightly corrected reading & understanding.
A warm, helpful and critical explanation of Paul. Fairly standard as regards critical issues, but is remarkably insightful in relating Pauline issues in the undisputed epistles -- especially the Corinthian correspondence; which is worth the price of the book.