Some Books on Paul for Critical Review          RelSt 436
Arranged Chronologically                     Robert Kraft

[Note: Books used as required reading are not eligible for
the review assignment]

Schweitzer, Albert. Paul and his Interpreters (1912 [*1911])
Deissman, A. Paul: A Study in Social and Religious History 
  ([1911 German] 1912; 1927\2)
Schwietzer, A. The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle (1931)
Nock, A. D. St. Paul (1938) [Basic Intro]
Davies, W. D. Paul and Rabbinic Judaism (1948; 1958\2; 1980\4)
Knox, John. Chapters in a Life of Paul (1950; repr 1989\2)
Dibelius, M. and Kummel, W. G. Paul (1953) [Basic Intro]
Sandmel, S. The Genius of Paul (1958) [Basic Intro]
Munck, J. Paul and the Salvation of Mankind (1959)
Schoeps, H. J. Paul: The Theology of the Apostle in the Light
  of Jewish Religious History (1961) [Extensive] 
Ellis, E. E. Paul and His Recent Interpreters (1961)
Longnecker, R. N. Paul: Apostle of Liberty (1964)
Georgi, Dieter. The Opponents of Paul in 2 Cor ([German original 
  1964] ET 1986)
Nickle, K. F. The Collection (1966)
Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Pauline Theology: A Brief Sketch (1967); 
  revised as Paul and His Theology: A Brief Sketch (1989\2) --
  [Excerpted from The New Jerome Biblical Commentary]
Furnish, V. P. Theology and Ethics in Paul (1968)
Bornkamm, G. Paul (1971)
Jewett, Robert. Paul's Anthropological Terms (Brill 1971)
Rubenstein, Richard. My Brother Paul (1972) [Freudian Interp]
Enslin, Morton S. Reapproaching Paul (1972) [Basic Intro.]
Whiteley, The Theology of St. Paul (1972; 1974\2)
Ziesler, John A. The Meaning of Righteousness in Paul (1972)
Roetzel, Calvin J. The Letters of Paul: Conversations in Context
  (1975\1; 1991\3)
Drane, J. W. Paul: Libertine or Legalist? (1975)
Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline 
  Letters (Fortress 1975)
Schu%tz, John. Paul and the Anatomy of Apostolic Authority (1975)
Bruce, F. F. Paul, Apostle of the Heart Set Free 
  (Eerdmans 1977) 510pp
Sanders, Ed P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of 
  Patterns of Religion (Fortress, 1977) [Extensive=627pp]
Holmberg, Bengt. Paul and Power (1978)
Jewett, R. A. A Chronology of Paul's Life (1979)
Furnish, Victor P. The Moral Teaching of Paul (1979)
Hooker, Morna D. Pauline Pieces / Preface to Paul (1979)
Keck, Leander. Paul and His Letters (Fortress 1979)
Banks, R. Paul's Idea of Community (1980)
Beker, J. C. Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and 
  Thought (1980) 480 pp
Hock, R. F. The Social Context of Paul's Ministry: Tentmaking and
  Apostleship (1980)
Hu%bner, H. Law in Paul's Thought (1981)
Theissen, Gerd. The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity (1982)
Beker, J. C. Paul's Apocalyptic Gospel (1982)
Theissen, Gerd. The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity (1982)
Sanders, Ed P. Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People (1983)
MacDonald, Dennis. The Legend and the Apostle: The Battle for 
  Paul in Story and Canon (Westminster 1983) [Pastorals esp.]
Meeks, W. A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the
  Apostle Paul (1983)
Ra%isa%nen, Heikki. Paul and the Law (1983; 1987\2)
Ziesler, John. Pauline Christianity (1983; 1990\2 [1991])
Lu%demann, Gerd. Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles (1984) [chronology]
Hooker, Morna D. Continuity and Discontinuity [with Judaism] (1986)
Gaston, Lloyd. Paul and the Torah (1987)
Theissen, Gerd. Psychological Aspects of Pauline Theology (1987)
Watson, Francis. Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: a Sociological 
  Approach (1987)
Best, Ernst. Paul and His Converts (1988)
MacDonald, M. Y. The Pauline Churches: A Socio-historical Study 
  of Institutionalization in the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline 
  Writings (CambridgeU 1988)
Hays, Richard B. Echoes of Scriptures in the Letters of Paul (1989)
Hubner, Hans. Law in Paul's Thought (T & T Clark 1989) 186 pp
Luedemann, Gerd. Opposition to Paul in Jewish Christianity (1989)
Malherbe, Abraham J. Paul and the Popular Philosophers (1989)
Segal, Alan. Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of 
  Saul the Pharisee (Yale, 1990)
Tomson, Peter J. Paul and the Jewish Law: Halakha in the Letters 
  of the Apostle to the Gentiles (1990)
Beker, J. Christiaan. The Heirs of Paul: Paul's Legacy in the NT 
  and in the Church Today (Fortress 1991)
Sanders, Ed P. Paul (Oxford 1991) [brief, some imbalance]
Hengel, Martin. The Pre-Christian Paul (1992?; see below, 1997)
Keener, Craig S. Paul, Women, and Wives: Marriage and Women's
  Ministry in the Letters of Paul (Hendrickson 1992) 368 pp
Maccoby, Hyam. Paul and Hellenism (1992?) [highly controversial]
Sanders, Ed P. Paul (1991) [Brief Intro]
Furnish, Victor. Jesus According to Paul (1993)
Lincoln, Andrew and A. J. M. Wedderburn. The Theology of the 
  Later Pauline Letters (CambridgeU 1993)
Barrett, C.K. Paul: An Introduction to His Thought 
  (Westminster/John Knox 1994) 180 pp
Boyarin, Daniel. A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity
  (UCal/Berkeley 1994)
Witherington, Ben III. Paul's Narrative Thought World: the Tapestry
  of Tragedy and Triumph (Westminster/John Knox 1994) 352 pp
Young, Frances. The Theology of the Pastoral Epistles (CambridgeU 
  1994)
Fee, Gordon D. Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God
  (Hendrickson 1995) 208 pp
Wenham, David. Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of 
  Christianity? (Eerdmans 1995) 448 pp [opts for follower]
Kruse, Colin G. Paul, the Law, and Justification
  (Hendrickson 1996) 320 pp
Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome. Paul: a Critical Life (Oxford 1996)
Nanos, Mark D. The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul's
  Letter (Fortress 1996)
Dunn, James D.G. The Theology of Paul the Apostle
  (Eerdmans 1997) 800 pp
Hengel, Martin and Anna Maria Schwemer. Paul Between Damascus and 
  Antioch: The Unknown Years (Westminster/John Knox 1997) 352 pp
Horsley, Richard A. (ed). Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in
  Roman Imperial Society (Trinity 1997) [anthology]
Lim, Timothy H. Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commentaries and 
  Pauline Letters (Oxford 1997)
Martyn, J. Louis. Theological Issues in the Letters of Paul
  (Abingdon 1997) 334 pp [collected essays]
Plevnik, Joseph. Paul and the Parousia: an Exegetical and Theological
  Investigation (Hendrickson 1997) 440 pp
Riesner, Rainer. Paul's Early Period: Chronology, Mission Strategy,
  Theology (Eerdmans 1997) 512 pp
Wright, N.T. What Saint Paul Really Said (Eerdmans 1997) 192 pp
Young, Brad H. Paul: the Jewish Theologian: a Pharisee among
  Christians, Jews, and Gentiles (Hendrickson 1997) 200 pp
Chae, Daniel Jong-Sang. Paul as Apostle to the Gentiles
  (Paternoster 1998) 378 pp
Witherington, Ben III. The Paul Quest: the Renewed Search for the
  Jew of Tarsus (InterVarsity 1998)

Some Anthologies and Dictionaries

Barrett, C. K. From the First Adam to the Last (1962)
Murphy O'Connor, J. and Charlesworth, J. H. Paul and the Dead
  Sea Scrolls (1968 = Paul and Qumran; reissue 1990)
Meeks, Wayne (ed). Writings of St. Paul (1972)
Stendahl, Krister. Paul Among Jews and Gentiles (1975)
Hooker, M. D. and Wilson, S. G. Paul and Paulinism: Essays in 
  Honour of C. K. Barrett (1982)
Johnson, E. Elizabeth and David M. Hay (eds). Pauline Theology 
  (4 vols; Scholars/Fortress 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997) [essays]

Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, ed. James Hastings (1916-19)
Dictionary of Paul and his Letters, ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne et 
  al. (InterVarsity 1993)