Corpus-Paul

["Revd Dr Sean F. Winter" <Sean.Winter AT virgin.net>]

What a good idea.  I am in the process of refitting my library, so have 
had a chance to look through my books again.  Allow me to add a few 
alternative and idiosyncratic titles (Mark Goodacre knows my admiration 
for Sanders', and Tom Wright was my supervisor, so I leave them out)

Richard Hays, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (beautifully 
written and extremely perceptive)

Neil Elliott, The Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and 
Strategy and Paul's Dialogue with Judaism (the book that introduced me 
to exciting (as opposed to the pedestrian "this is the probatio") forms 
of rhetorical criticism.

James Dunn, Jesus, Paul and the Law: Studies in Mark and Galatians: for 
the seminal articles on the new perspective

Morna Hooker: From Adam to Christ: Essays on Paul:  lucid, original 
scholarship.

I agree also with the comments about Beker etc.

With regard to Murphy O'Connor's book, my understanding was that the 
title used "critical" in a double sense to describe the author's 
approach to Paul, but also the importance of Paul's life in the 
development of Christianity.

Anyway, that's my little contribution

Revd Dr Sean Winter
Baptist Minister, Reading, England