This video about Paul’s meeting with James is really interesting, and gets at a key insight that Rob Orlando offers into Paul’s final journey to Jerusalem. To be sure, it is possible to overplay the differences between Paul and James. But the tendency is much more for people to underestimate the disagreements, I think. If Rob is right, I think there may be interesting implications not only for our understanding of Paul himself and the outlook of the Book of Acts, but also Paul’s relationship to his family, his family’s connections with Christianity, James’ relationship with Jesus, and perhaps as a result of all of the above, there are insights to be gleaned relevant to the quest for the historical Jesus as well.
Of related interest:
Review of Peter von der Osten-Sacken’s New Commentary on Galatians
There’s not only the review, but also an ongoing series on Ben Witherington’s blog about Scot McKnight’s book in which the two discuss it.
Scot McKnight’s Reading Romans Backwards— Dialogue Part Eleven
His conversation with N. T. Wright about his latest book may also be of interest. Here is on of those posts:
Dialogue with Tom Wright about History and Eschatology– Part One
And from Adam Akma, a note to himself about Paul:
BMCR had a review of Archaeology and the Letters of Paul
A couple of open access books are available related to the study of Paul and his letters:
A review of Scot McKnight’s Pastor Paul
A podcast about works of the Law:
Ian Paul on the response Paul’s gospel evoked
Rereading Romans and Galatians from the Perspective of Paul’s Gospel
https://www.episcopalcafe.com/paul-a-servant-of-jesus-christ/
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