T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul (T&T Clark Handbooks)

"The T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul gathers leading voices on various aspects of Paul's biography into a thorough reconsideration of him as a historical figure. The contributors show how recent trends in Pauline scholarship have invited new questions about a variety of topics, including his social location, his mode of subsistence, his cultural formation, his place within Judaism, his religious experience and practice, and his affinities with other religious actors of the Roman world. Through careful attention to biographical detail, social context, and historical method, it seeks to describe him as a contextually plausible social actor. The volume is structured in three parts. Part One introduces sources, methods, and historiographical approaches, surveying the foundational texts for Paul and the early Pauline tradition. Part Two examines key biographical questions pertaining to Paul's bodily comportment, the material aspects of his career, and his religious activities. Part Three reconstructs the biographical portraits of Paul that emerge from the letters associated with him, presenting a series of "micro-biographies" pieced together by leading Pauline scholars."-- Contents List of Tables Note on Translations List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction • Ryan S. Schellenberg and Heidi Wendt Part One: Sources and Methodology 2 The Corpus Paulinum • Leif E. Vaage 3 Acts • Christopher Mount 4 The Pauline Tradition • Benjamin L. White 5 The Manuscript Tradition • Brent Nongbri 6 Person, Character, Self • Eve-Marie Becker Part Two: Biographical Problems 7 Travel and Homelessness • Timothy Luckritz Marquis 8 Manual Labor and Sustenance • Thomas R. Blanton IV 9 Beatings and Imprisonments • Ryan S. Schellenberg 10 Appearance and Health • Louise J. Lawrence 11 Singleness and Celibacy • Calvin J. Roetzel 12 Ioudaios, Pharisee, Zealot • Matthew V. Novenson 13 Literacy and Education • Paul Robertson 14 Mythmaking and Exegesis • Heidi Wendt 15 Divination and Miracles • Jennifer Eyl 16 Religious Experience • Colleen Shantz 17 Death • David L. Eastman 18 Chronology • Douglas A. Campbell Part ThreeL Epistolary Micro-Biographies 19 Romans • Kathy Ehrensperger 20 The Corinthian Correspondence • Paul B. Duff 21 Galatians • Mark D. Nanos and Heidi Wendt 22 Philippians and Philemon • Angela Standhartinger 23 1 & 2 Thessalonians • Richard S. Ascough 24 Colossians and Ephesians • Margaret Y. MacDonald 25 The Pastoral Epistles • Simon Butticaz Bibliography Notes on Contributors Subject Index Index of Ancient Sources "Reconsiders Paul's life including his literacy, social location and place within Judaism, surveys all the literary and historical sources, and reconstructs potential "micro-biographies" from the texts associated with Paul"-- Provided by publisher