I’m trying to compile the top German works on Paul for the good bishop. I think I’ve got a fairly comprehensive list of works, along with their abstracts from NTA, that I’ve now categorised. I know the strenths and weaknesses of the stuff that pertains to my research, but I’m not sure an easy way to rank the others. So I thought I’d put the question to the blogging world. Which works do you think should be included in a top 20 list (articles and/or books) from the last 15-20 years?
I’d also be willing to share the full list with someone who will commit to provide feedback on what’s missing and what is most important. Takers?
Thursday, 9 July 2009 at 2:04 pm
A few thoughts:
Rainer Riesner, Die Frühzeit des Apostels Paulus, (WUNT 71), Tübingen 1994.
Martin Hengel, Anna M. Schwemer, Paulus zwischen Damaskus und Antiochien, (WUNT 108), Tübingen 1998.
Martin Hengel, Paulus und Jakobus, Kleine Schriften III, (WUNT 141), Tübingen 2002.
(This volume includes the important study: Der vorchristliche Paulus, in collaboration with Roland Deines.)
Martin Hengel, Ulrich Heckel (Hrsg.), Paulus und das antike Judentum – Tübingen-Durham Symposium zum Gedenken im Gedenken an den 50. Todestag Adolf Schlatters (19. Mai 1938), (WUNT 58), Tübingen 1991.
Udo Schnelle, Paulus – Leben und Denken, Berlin/ New York 2003.
Jürgen Becker, Paulus – Der Apostel der Völker, 3rd ed., Stuttgart 2003.
Eduard Lohse, Paulus – Eine Biographie, München 2003.
The respective Volumes in the NT-Theologies by Peter Stuhlmacher, Ulrich Wilckens, Ferdinand Hahn, and Hans Hübner.
Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Heidenapostel aus Israel, (WUNT 62), Tübingen 1992.
Detlev Häußer, Christusbekenntnis und Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus, (WUNT 2.210), Tübingen 2006.
Joachim Gnilka, Paulus – Apostel und Zeuge, Freiburg i.Br. 1996.
Gerd Lüdemann, Paulus der Heidenapostel I+II, Göttingen 1980.
Thursday, 9 July 2009 at 2:50 pm
Nice list. Thanks!
Saturday, 11 July 2009 at 12:59 am
Hi Ben
It depends partly on whether you want more general studies, such as those listed by Andreas above (some of which are of course available in ET) or more technical monographs. I would be happy to offer some feedback if you like (it would be nice to help Tom out!) so if you wanted to send a list on, along with an indication of what kind of information you need then go ahead.
Sean
Wednesday, 15 July 2009 at 6:50 pm
Thanks Sean. I’ve sent the list along, so let me know if you didn’t get it.
Sunday, 26 July 2009 at 9:54 am
If people are looking at Paul,
I was reading various commentaries on Romans, and had some questions that the commentaries did not seem to me to address.
Do you know please what Paul may have had in mind in the following passages?
Romans 3
What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision? Much in every way! First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
Had it been an advantage to the Jews having Jesus live among them, preaching, teaching and working miracles?
If the Jews had been entrusted with the very words of God, who had been entrusted with the words of Jesus?
Romans 10
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15And how can they preach unless they are sent?
Had any Jews heard of Jesus, in the mind of Paul, apart from through Christians preaching about him? Who does Paul think had sent Christians to preach about Jesus to the Jews?
Romans 15
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Were the words and deeds of Jesus not the primary source of hope and encouragement for Jesus? Paul just quotes Psalm 69 ‘the insults of those who insult you fall on me’, rather than Jesus.
As though the scriptures gave hope because they were the source of what had happened to Jesus.
Romans 16
Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him
Had the Gospel been made known through the Old Testament prophetic writings? Had Jesus not come to earth so that all nations might believe and obey him, or was this belief supposed to come from the new way of reading the Old Testament, which now revealed the long hidden mystery?
On a general point, Romans is about how Jesus had changed the relationship between Jews and Gentiles, the Law and sin, between faith and salvation. Had Jesus said much that Paul thought was relevant to those topics?