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 8 List of Tables 10 Note on Translations 11 List of Abbreviations 12 1 Introduction • Ryan S. Schellenberg and Heidi Wendt 18 Part One: Sources and Methodology 24 2 The Corpus Paulinum • Leif E. Vaage 26 3 Acts • Christopher Mount 40 4 The Pauline Tradition • Benjamin L. White 56 5 The Manuscript Tradition • Brent Nongbri 72 6 Person, Character, Self • Eve-Marie Becker 86 Part Two: Biographical Problems 102 7 Travel and Homelessness • Timothy Luckritz Marquis 104 8 Manual Labor and Sustenance • Thomas R. Blanton IV 120 9 Beatings and Imprisonments • Ryan S. Schellenberg 140 10 Appearance and Health • Louise J. Lawrence 158 11 Singleness and Celibacy • Calvin J. Roetzel 172 12 Ioudaios, Pharisee, Zealot • Matthew V. Novenson 184 13 Literacy and Education • Paul Robertson 200 14 Mythmaking and Exegesis • Heidi Wendt 216 15 Divination and Miracles • Jennifer Eyl 232 16 Religious Experience • Colleen Shantz 250 17 Death • David L. Eastman 266 18 Chronology • Douglas A. Campbell 282 Part ThreeL Epistolary Micro-Biographies 304 19 Romans • Kathy Ehrensperger 306 20 The Corinthian Correspondence • Paul B. Duff 324 21 Galatians • Mark D. Nanos and Heidi Wendt 346 22 Philippians and Philemon • Angela Standhartinger 366 23 1 & 2 Thessalonians • Richard S. Ascough 382 24 Colossians and Ephesians • Margaret Y. MacDonald 396 25 The Pastoral Epistles • Simon Butticaz 414 Bibliography 426 Notes on Contributors 476 Subject Index 478 Index of Ancient Sources 484 "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