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Paul: His History Jerome Murphy-O'Connor |
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Who was Paul the
Apostle? For someone who had exercised such a profound influence on
Christian theology, Paul remains a shadowy figure behind the barrier of his
complicated and difficult biblical letters. Debates about his meaning have
deflected attention from his personality, yet his personality is an important
key to understanding his theological ideas. This book redresses the balance.
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's disciplined imagination, nourished by a lifetime of
research, shapes numerous textual, historical, and archaeological details
into a colorful and enjoyable story of which Paul is the flawed but
undefeated hero. This chronological
narrative offers new insights into Paul's intellectual, emotional, and religious
development and puts his travels, mission, and theological ideas into a
plausible biographical context. As he changes from an assimilated Jewish
teenager in Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
OP is
recognized throughout the world as an authority on the New Testament and A Dominican priest , he is Professor of New Testament at the Ecole' Biblique et Arche'ologique Francaise, Historical tours of the
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