Corpus-Paul

["Michael Thompson" <mbt2 AT cam.ac.uk>]

--On Wed, May 12, 1999 12:20 pm -0700 "Ray Fincher" <rfincher AT pe.net> wrote:


> Paulsters:
> 
> OK, folks, you've had a chance to influence the library acquisitions of
your humble resident sixty-something third career seminarian. Unless I hear
dissent, my visit to the Claremont bookstore tomorrow is going to net me:
> 
>      Bultmann - Theology of the New Testament
>   and
>      Becker - Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles
> 
> Further advice is solicited - offline, probably, since only a few listers
appear interested in this subject.
> 
> Ray
> <rfincher AT pe.net>
> Disciples Seminary Foundation Claremont Student in Perpetuity 

For what it's worth, I'd buy J D G Dunn's Theology of Paul (Eerdmans) before
Becker. Bultmann is indeed a classic in several respects, but the discussion
has moved on in many ways. 

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