Description: A provocative analysis of interrelated issues running through Paul's letters including Paul's views on the Roman Empire, on the politics of Israel, and politics and the church.
Brief description: Richard A. Horlsey is Professor of Classics and Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is author of Galilee: History, Politics, People; Archaeology, History, and Society in Galilee: The Social Context of Jesus and the Rabbis; and editor of Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society, all published by Trinity Press.
Review Quotes: "Nothing more need be said about this book other than that it is a fitting tribute to one of the greatest scholars of Christianity and most righteous of human beings in our time. Professor (and Bishop) Stendahl is being honored here by seeing the concrete and magnificent effects of the seed that he planted taking root and bearing fruit and flower in splendid essays by many of the leading lights of progressive Pauline scholarship in the generation that he taught. The book makes an important and coherent statement, rare among Festschriften." Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley--Sanford Lakoff