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The Mystery of Paul

Three new books explore the man who shaped Christianity

By Bruce Chilton

Paul: A Critical Life Jerome Murphy-O’Connor (New York and Oxford: Clarendon, 1996) xv1 + 416 pp., $35 Paul: The Mind of the Apostle A.N. Wilson (New York and London: Norton, 1977) xiii + 274 pp., $25 What Saint Paul Really SaidWas Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity? Tom Wright (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997) 192 pp., $14 037 No wonder many people think of Paul as the real founder of Christianity: The number of letters in the New Testament written by him, the number of letters attributed to him and the space devoted to his activities in the […]

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Endnotes

1.

See Bruce Chilton, “The Eucharist—Exploring Its Origins,” BR 10:06.

2.

Abraham J. Malherbe, Paul and the Thessalonians: The Tradition of Pastoral Care (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987).

3.

See Bruce Chilton and Jacob N. Neusner, Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs (New York: Routledge, 1995).

4.

Chilton, “The Eucharist.”