Corpus-Paul

["Given, Mark Douglas" <mdg421f AT smsu.edu>]

I always receive mostly positive--sometimes glowing--feedback for Roetzel's, 
The Letters of Paul.  I supplement it with a number of things.  My syllabus 
is online if you want to check it out.

http://courses.smsu.edu/mdg421f/

Mark Given

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> Take a look at Virginia Wiles, Making Sense of Paul 
> (Hendrickson, 2000)
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> Matthew
> 
> 2 books you'd probably find useful: Calvin Roetzel's "Paul: 
> the Man and the
> Myth" (Fortress, 1999) and N.T. Wright's "What St Paul Really 
> Said", (1997)
> 
> regards
> Gary
> 
> Dr Gary W Burnett
> Union Theological College, Belfast
> gwburn AT ntlworld.com
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> > From: Matthew Baldwin <mbaldwin AT mhc.edu>
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> > Greetings:
> >
> > Facing the task of teaching my first semester-long survey 
> of the life and
> > letters of Paul, I find myself completely unsure as to 
> which texts to use
> > (beyond the obvious: Paul's authentic letters and Acts).   
> My college is a
> > small, undergraduates only, Christian liberal arts school in rural
> > Appalachia; the students are as advanced as they come out 
> here (i.e. not
> > too very advanced);  so they will still need BASIC contextual and
> > conceptual information.
> >
> > What are the best books on Paul pitched at the non-greek reading
> > non-biblical scholar culturally Christian but 
> intellectually curioius
> > undergraduate student?
> >
> > I regret the fact that I have no idea myself, it seems like 
> a serious gap
> in
> > my education, but mayhaps you all can help.
> >
> > Thanks a million,
> >
> > Matthew Baldwin
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >      Matthew C. Baldwin, Ph.D.
> >      Assistant Professor
> >      Department of Religion and Philosophy
> >      Mars Hill College
> >      P.O. Box 6763
> >      Mars Hill, NC 28754
> >      828-689-1184
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> > Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:37:51 -0500
> > From: "Sheila E. McGinn, Ph.D." <smcginn AT jcu.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] recommendations for 
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> > Matthew, I have used Marion Soards, _The Apostle Paul_, and 
> undergrads
> > have liked it pretty well.  Or, for a topical approach, Jerome
> > Murphy-O'Connor, _Becoming Human Together_.  Neither are 
> new books, but
> > they are both accessible to sophomores.  SEM
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> From: Don Garlington <dongarlington AT yahoo.com>
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> I might suggest Charles Cousar, The Letters of Paul.
> Interpreting Biblical Texts. Nashville: Abingdon,
> 1996.
> 
> Don Garlington
> Toronto
> 
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> --- Matthew Baldwin <mbaldwin AT mhc.edu> wrote:
> > Greetings:
> > 
> > Facing the task of teaching my first semester-long
> > survey of the life and 
> > letters of Paul, I find myself completely unsure as
> > to which texts to use 
> > (beyond the obvious: Paul's authentic letters and
> > Acts).   My college is a 
> > small, undergraduates only, Christian liberal arts
> > school in rural 
> > Appalachia; the students are as advanced as they
> > come out here (i.e. not 
> > too very advanced);  so they will still need BASIC
> > contextual and 
> > conceptual information.
> > 
> > What are the best books on Paul pitched at the
> > non-greek reading 
> > non-biblical scholar culturally Christian but
> > intellectually curioius 
> > undergraduate student?
> > 
> > I regret the fact that I have no idea myself, it
> > seems like a serious gap in 
> > my education, but mayhaps you all can help.
> > 
> > Thanks a million,
> > 
> > Matthew Baldwin
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > 
> >      Matthew C. Baldwin, Ph.D.
> >      Assistant Professor
> >      Department of Religion and Philosophy
> >      Mars Hill College
> >      P.O. Box 6763
> >      Mars Hill, NC 28754
> >      828-689-1184
> > 
> >     http://relphil.mhc.edu/mbaldwin
> > 
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> From: "Frank W. Hughes" <fwhughes AT sunbeach.net>
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> I'd like to second the recommendation for Calvin Roetzel's, Paul, the 
> Man and the Myth (Fortress Press 1999).
> 
> Not totally out of the ballpark would be John Knox, Chapters 
> in a Life 
> of Paul (revised 2nd edition, Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 
> 1987).  Another good book, though not really easy to read and 
> strongly 
> oriented towards Pauline theology is C. K. Barrett, Paul: An 
> Introduction to his Thought (London: Geoffrey Chapman; Louisville: 
> Westminster / John Knox Press, 1994).
> 
> For my Introduction to the NT class I use:
> Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament (ABRL; 
> New York: 
> Doubleday, 1997).  This book has massive and comprehensive English 
> bibliographies on Paul and each letter.  It has very 
> conservative ideas 
> about Pauline chronology but otherwise gives good summaries of "basic 
> information" about each letter.  It raises important 
> interpretive issues 
> at the end of each chapter.  This might be too challenging for many 
> undergraduates, although I have used it with a lot of success with 
> seminarians and other first year theological students.  If students 
> can't make their way through Brown at Level I, then they're going to 
> have problems when they get to my Level II and Level III classes.  I 
> refer students to the bibliographies in Brown for all my 
> other NT classes.
> 
> I hope this may be helpful.
> 
> Frank W. Hughes
> Codrington College
> Barbados
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> I'd like to second the recommendation for Calvin Roetzel's, 
> <i>Paul, the
> Man and the Myth</i> (Fortress Press 1999).<br>
> <br>
> Not totally out of the ballpark would be John Knox, 
> <i>Chapters in a Life
> of Paul</i> (revised 2nd edition, Macon, Ga.: Mercer 
> University Press, 1987).
> &nbsp;Another good book, though not really easy to read and 
> strongly oriented
> towards Pauline theology is C. K. Barrett, <i>Paul: An 
> Introduction to his
> Thought</i> (London: Geoffrey Chapman; Louisville: 
> Westminster / John Knox
> Press, 1994).<br>
> <br>
> For my Introduction to the NT class I use:<br>
> Raymond E. Brown, <i>An Introduction to the New Testament</i> 
> (ABRL; New
> York: Doubleday, 1997).&nbsp; This book has massive and 
> comprehensive English
> bibliographies on Paul and each letter.&nbsp; It has very 
> conservative ideas about
> Pauline chronology but otherwise gives good summaries of 
> "basic information"
> about each letter.&nbsp; It raises important interpretive 
> issues at the end of
> each chapter. &nbsp;This might be too challenging for many 
> undergraduates, although
> I have used it with a lot of success with seminarians and 
> other first year
> theological students. &nbsp;If students can't make their way 
> through Brown at
> Level I, then they're going to have problems when they get to 
> my Level II
> and Level III classes. &nbsp;I refer students to the 
> bibliographies in Brown for
> all my other NT classes.<br>
> <br>
> I hope this may be helpful.<br>
> <br>
> Frank W. Hughes<br>
> Codrington College<br>
> Barbados<br>
> <br>
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> As an undergraduate who did a course on Paul last year at 
> Leeds University in 
> the UK  I found several books useful C J Roetzel `Paul, The 
> Man and the 
> Myth`, D.Horrell `An Introduction to the Study of Paul`, J D 
> G Dunn `The 
> Theology of St Paul` and finally about the best Tom Wright`s 
> `What St Paul 
> Really Said`. I hope this is useful.
> 
> A.P.Bourne
> 23 Leake Street
> Castleford
> West Yorks,
> U.K.
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> FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">As an undergraduate 
> who did a course on Paul last year at Leeds University in the 
> UK&nbsp; I found several books useful C J Roetzel `Paul, The 
> Man and the Myth`, D.Horrell `An Introduction to the Study of 
> Paul`, J D G Dunn `The Theology of St Paul` and finally about 
> the best Tom Wright`s `What St Paul Really Said`. I hope this 
> is useful.<BR>
> <BR>
> A.P.Bourne<BR>
> 23 Leake Street<BR>
> Castleford<BR>
> West Yorks,<BR>
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