{"id":4165,"date":"2007-10-25T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/10\/seeking-textbook-recommendations-for-a-course-on-pauls-letters\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T22:37:00","slug":"seeking-textbook-recommendations-for-a-course-on-pauls-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/10\/seeking-textbook-recommendations-for-a-course-on-pauls-letters.html","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Textbook Recommendations For A Course On Paul’s Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Next semester I will be teaching my course on \u201cPaul and the Early Church<\/a>\u201d again. The last time I taught it, I got students to share the work, researching select passages from a given letter and then making their summaries available. This time, I\u2019d like to try something different. I\u2019ve looked at a number of overviews of Paul\u2019s life and several shorter academic commentaries, but I still don\u2019t feel as though I\u2019ve identified ones that are clearly appropriate for an undergraduate course that covers several letters (I intend to at least cover Galatians, Romans, and 1 Corinthians) and does not expect students to know Greek. Indeed, for most of the students in the class this will probably be their first real exegetically-oriented class (since in the introductory Bible class, we survey so much that we do not spend all that much time on any given passage, and cover a wide range of excerpts). I nevertheless want to get into some of the details of the letters, and am not looking for something that is superficial or gives only one interpretative option. The Cliff Notes for Paul\u2019s letters<\/a> are available online, but that isn\u2019t the sort of thing I\u2019m looking for! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Does anyone have any particular recommendations? Any suggestions regarding either books or online resources would be most welcome!<\/p>\n

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