Paul and Jesus
The
relationship between the messages of Jesus and Paul, once dubbed by one
scholar 'the second founder of Christianity', must count as one of the
most central issues in the study of the New Testament. The essays
collected in this volume first survey the history of the study of this
problem, and look at some of the main evidence for supposing that the
connection between Jesus and Paul was slight, notably the paucity of
Paul's references to Jesus' teachings and his seeming disinterest in the
earthly Jesus. Other essays take up the question of the continuity
between the teaching and the manner of life of the two men, and raise
the question how this continuity may have been mediated from one to the
other. A final essay raises the question how far Paul's statements about
Christ were related to the earthly life of Jesus. This volume brings
together a number of substantial contributions to this question, by
Professor V.P. Furnish of Dallas, by two scholars from the German
Democratic Republic, Professor N. Walter and Dr C. Wolff, and by the
editor; some are published for the first time, some are here made
available in English for the first time.
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