Corpus-Paul

[Jeff Peterson <peterson AT austingrad.edu>]

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 11:18 AM, Robert Kraft wrote:

> Well, I've waited for someone to mention what I've long considered to 
> be the
> best condensed and inductive treatment of Pauline Theology, but to no 
> avail.
> What's with this younger generation? {smiley emotikon, perhaps winking}
>
> Is noone using Joe Fitzmyer's little "Pauline Theology: a Brief 
> Sketch" (1967),
> reissued with a biographical section on Paul as "Paul and his 
> Theology: a Brief
> Sketch" (1989 Prentice Hall)? It's really a "magnum in parvo" (or 
> however the
> Latin goes) sort of thing. It's still listed as available, but at an 
> exorbitant
> price ("available on demand" at the Prentice Hall page -- possibly 
> cheaper
> elsewhere).

Bob,

I assign Fitzmyer in my graduate Introduction to the NT and agree with 
you about its nutritional content. I've recommended it before on one or 
more of the lists and never gotten any positive reaction -- which left 
me thinking, "What's wrong with older scholars that they won't commend 
the classics of their generation?" :-)

Jeff

Jeffrey Peterson
Austin Graduate School of Theology
Austin, Texas