Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul?

Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul?Readers of the Bible are often drawn to Jesus's message and ministry, but they are not as positively inclined toward Paul. What should people who love Jesus do with Paul? Here Pauline scholar J. R. Daniel Kirk offers a fresh and timely engagement of the debated relationship between Paul's writings and the portrait of Jesus contained in the Gospels. He integrates the messages of Jesus and Paul both with one another and with the Old Testament,

whether explicitly or implicitly

the significance of touch as Jesus healed people

The remaining chapters give exemplary readings of the figure of Jesus and of the various divisions of the New Testament canon

and the world of the reader--to help students develop an integrated hermeneutical strategy

an expert in monastic studies

development

Martin Luther read and preached the biblical text as the record of God addressing real

Filling a lacuna in Pauline scholarship

and diagrams incorporated throughout the text to engage his readers

readers can increase their understanding of the biblical text and learn to love God's Word more

This collection of essays presents various perspectives concerning the hermeneutical issue of whether or not Jesus and the apostles quoted Old Testament texts with respect for their broader Old Testament context

Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by attending to the ancient narrative and rhetorical strategies the text employs