Paul the Apostle:
Books, Articles and Reviews

Books & Dissertations

A Radical Jew
By Daniel Boyarin: full on-line version of Daniel Boyarin, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 1; California: The University of California Press, 1994)

By Works of the Law No One Shall Be Justified
By Dieter Mitternacht, Master of Theology Thesis, Bethel Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1988 [Note: PDF file -- large]

Articles & Reviews

J. D. H. Amador, “Revisiting 2 Corinthians: Rhetoric and the Case for Unity”, New Testament Studies 46 (2000): 1-21 (reproduced on Amador's homepage)

J. D. H. Amador, “"Re-reading 2nd Corinthians: A Rhetorical Approach”, The Rhetorical Interpretation of Scripture: Essays from the 2000 Lund Conference (Atlanta, GA: Emory University Press, forthcoming), reproduced on Amador's homepage.

G. K. Beale, “Peace and Mercy Upon the Israel of God. The Old Testament Background of Galatians 6,16b”, Biblica 80 (1999): 204-223

Pamela Eisenbaum, “Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism?”, Crosscurrents 50/4 (Winter 2000-01)

John Gager, “Paul's Contradictions -- Can They Be Resolved?”, Bible Review 14 (December 1998): 32-39

Simon Gathercole, “After the New Perspective: Works, Justification and Boasting in Early Judaism and Romans 1-5”, Tyndale Bulletin 52.2 (2001): 303-306

Mark Given, “True Rhetoric: Ambiguity, Cunning, and Deception in Pauline Discourse”, Society of Biblical Literature 1997 Seminar Papers (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997): 526-550

Richard Hays, “Ecclesiology and Ethics in 1 Corinthians”, Ex Auditu, Vol. 10 (1994)

Richard Heard, “Paul and His Epistles”, Chapter 18 in An Introduction to the New Testament (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950), reproduced on Religion-Online.

John Paul Heil, “The Chiastic Structure and Meaning of Paul's Letter to Philemon”, Biblica 82 (2001): 178-206

John Paul Heil, “Paul and the Law: Different Dimensions and Connotations”, The Bible Today 39 (2001): 277-82

John Paul Heil, “Christ, the Termination of the Law (Romans 9:30-10:8)”, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63 (2001): 484-98

John Paul Heil, “From Remnant to Seed of Hope for Israel: Romans 9:27-29”, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 64 (2002): 703-20

John Paul Heil, “The Voices of Scripture and Paul’s Rhetorical Strategy of Hope in Romans 15:7-13”, Theoforum 33 (2002): 187-211

Catherine Innes-Parker, “Mi bodi henge with thi bodi neiled o rode: The gendering of the Pauline concept of crucifixion with Christ in medieval devotional prose for women”, Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 28:1 (1999)

J. Kilgallen, “The Strivings of the Flesh (Galatians 5.17)”, Biblica 80 (1999): 113-114

L. J. Kreitzer, “The Plutonium of Hierapolis and the Descent of Christ into the 'Lowermost Parts of the Earth' (Ephesians 4.9)”, Biblica 79 (1998): 381-393

J. Lambrecht, “Abraham and His Offspring. A Comparison of Galatians 5.1 with 3.13”, Biblica 80 (1999): 525-536

J. Lambrecht, “The Right Things You Want to Do. A Note on Galatians 5.17d”, Biblica 79 (1998): 515-524

Joachim Meißner, “Die Liebe Glaubt Alles? Adverbiell Gebrauchtes panta bei Paulus”, Filología Neotestamentaria 12 (1999): 55-78

Claudio Moreschini and Enrico Norelli, “The Letters of Paul and of the Pauline Tradition”, Chapter 1 in Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature: A Literary History (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005) (New)

B. J. Oropeza, “Laying to Rest the Midrash: Paul's Message on Meat Sacrificed to Idols in Light of the Deuteronomistic Tradition”, Biblica 79 (1998): 57-68

Todd Penner & Caroline Vander Stichele, “Unveiling Paul: Gendering Ethos in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16”, Lectio Difficilior 2 (2004) (electronic journal)

J. Plevnik, “1 Thessalonians 4.17: The Bringing in of the Lord or the Bringing in of the Faithful?”, Biblica 80 (1999): 537-546

F. Prat, “St Paul” article on Paul from the Catholic Encyclopaedia.

Moises Silva, “Abraham, Faith and Works: Paul's Use of Scripture in Galatians 3.6-14", Westminster Theological Journal 63 (2001): 256-67

Christian Stettler, “The 'Command of the Lord' in 1 Cor 14,37 – a Saying of Jesus?", Biblica 87 (2006): 42-51

Gerhard Swart, “Why without Excuse? An Inquiry into the Syntactic and Semantic Relations of Romans 1:18–21", Neotestamentica 39.2 (2005): 389-407

Holger Szesnat, “What Did the Skenopoios Paul Produce?", Neotestamentica 27 (1993): 391-402

James Tabor, “The Message and Mission of Paul”, on-line article -- part of the author's Jewish-Roman World of Jesus web site. Also available are the following:

• the Problems at Corinth
• Notes on Romans
• Colour-coded Corinthian Correspondence.

David Trobisch, “The Oldest Extant Editions of the Letters of Paul”  (illustrated), adapted from the first chapter of the author's Paul's Letter Collection: Tracing the Origins (Fortress Press: Minneapolis, 1994).

David Trobisch, “The Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 and Paul's Letter to the Galatians", Christopher Seitz and Kathryn Greene-McCreight (ed.), Theological Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Brevard S. Childs (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999) (PDF file)

A. Vanhoye, “PistiV Cristou: fede in Cristo o affidabilità di Cristo?”, Biblica 80 (1999) 1-21

Charles Wanamaker, “'Like A Father Treats His Own Children' Paul and the Conversion of the Thessalonians”, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 92 (September 1995) 46-55

Charles A. Wanamaker, “Metaphor and Morality: Examples of Paul’s Moral Thinking in 1 Corinthians 1-5", Neotestamentica 39.2 (2005): 409-33

Francis Watson, “Not the New Perspective”, an unpublished paper given at the British New Testament Conference, Manchester, September 2001

Francis Watson, “The Authority of the Voice: A Theological Reading of 1 Cor. 11.2-16”, New Testament Studies 46 (2000): 520-36

N. T. Wright, “One God, One Lord, One People. Incarnational Christology for a Church in a Pagan Environment” (article on 1 Corinthians 8-10), Ex Auditu Vol. 7 (1991)

N. T. Wright, “Paul's Gospel and Caesar's Empire”, Reflections (Center of Theological Inquiry public lectures) Vol. 2 (1998)

N. T. Wright, “Coming Home to St Paul? Reading Romans a Hundred Years after Charles Gore”, Charles Gore Lectures 2000 (14 November 2000), Westminster Abbey Web site

N. T. Wright, “The Shape of Justification”, (Response to Paul Barnett's "Tom Wright and the New Perspective)

N. T. Wright, “Communion and Koinonia: Pauline Reflections on Tolerance and Boundaries”, paper from the Future of Anglicanism Conference, Oxford 2002 (reproduced on the Latimer Fellowship web site)

N. T. Wright, “New Perspectives on Paul”, Rutherford House Lecture, 25-28 August 2003 (reproduced on the N. T. Wright page) [PDF version]

N. T. Wright, “Romans and the Theology of Paul”, reproduced on the N. T. Wright page

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NT Books: Pauline Epistles
By Rodney J. Decker: a useful collection of links to articles; a component of his Resources for New Testament Studies.

New Testament Books
At the Biblical Studies Foundation: some helpful outlines and articles (mainly conservative) on books in the New Testament.