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1Arctic-Stranger
One of my favorite New Testament scholars is Tom (N.T.) Wright, former Bishop of Durham. He is original and yet pretty orthodox, controversial, yet respectable as a scholar, and prolific. I just got his latest book on Paul, Paul and Faithfulness of God, a two volume, 1600 page look at the prime organizer of Gentile Christianity. This the fourth volume in the series, Christian Origins and the Question of God.
I am going to start reading it in, and wondered if anyone else had a hankering to do some deep reading on Paul as well. Or if anyone had any thoughts on Wright.
I am going to start reading it in, and wondered if anyone else had a hankering to do some deep reading on Paul as well. Or if anyone had any thoughts on Wright.
2timspalding
I've read his Paul: In Fresh Perspective. I didn't much like it, but I've liked other things by him.
Still, 1,600 pages?!
Still, 1,600 pages?!
3MarthaJeanne
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4MarthaJeanne
I intend to reread the series next year, finishing with the new book on Paul.
Not only 1600 pages, but the previous volumes as well, and even on the ones I've read several times, this series goes very slowly. I need at least twice my normal time to follow (at least some of) what he is saying. Not masocism. I get so much out of it, that I am looking forward to it.
I have tentatively scheduled for myself two months each for the first three volumes and three each for the two volumes on Paul.
Not only 1600 pages, but the previous volumes as well, and even on the ones I've read several times, this series goes very slowly. I need at least twice my normal time to follow (at least some of) what he is saying. Not masocism. I get so much out of it, that I am looking forward to it.
I have tentatively scheduled for myself two months each for the first three volumes and three each for the two volumes on Paul.
5rwb24
I look forward to beginning Wright's long-awaited Paul Book(s) some point after Christmas. Whatever my reservations or cavils, I know I greatly benefited from its three predecessors.
This book has now been awaited so very long (there was already a half completed draft in 1989) I worry it could have gone off the boil - will Wright have anything 'fresh' left to contribute? - but at worst it should be another very readable, if monstrously long, synthesis.
(It gets worse than 1600 pages. Wright is also bringing out two 'companion volumes' totalling a further 1200 pages: Pauline Perspectives, his collected shorter essays on Paul; and Paul and his Recent Interpreters, a survey of the secondary literature which outgrew the main book.)
This book has now been awaited so very long (there was already a half completed draft in 1989) I worry it could have gone off the boil - will Wright have anything 'fresh' left to contribute? - but at worst it should be another very readable, if monstrously long, synthesis.
(It gets worse than 1600 pages. Wright is also bringing out two 'companion volumes' totalling a further 1200 pages: Pauline Perspectives, his collected shorter essays on Paul; and Paul and his Recent Interpreters, a survey of the secondary literature which outgrew the main book.)
6Arctic-Stranger
So far he is covering ground he covered in The New Testament and the People of God, but doing that in a fresher way.
He could use an editor. Several points are made, then remade, the made again. But I like where he is going with this.
He could use an editor. Several points are made, then remade, the made again. But I like where he is going with this.
