[By Robert E. Picirilli ] Paul The Apostle (Paperback)【2018】by Robert E. Picirilli (Author)

by Moody Publishers (contributor)

Paul the Apostle is the ideal choice if you want a solid understanding of Paul’s life, ministry, and writings without getting weighed down with minutia. Author Robert E. Picirilli, who taught college courses on Paul for over twenty-five years, found that most books on the apostle were either too technical or too basic, so he wrote a book that strikes a happy medium. It A profile of Paul in his historical and cultural context Outlines and explanations of his missionary journeys Introductions and brief analyses of each of his epistles Useful for individual study or as a textbook (as it is in many universities today), Paul the Apostle is a great one-stop study of the man who wrote half the New Testament, spread the gospel to the heart of the known world, and gave his life for the Kingdom.

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Reviews

[Mike Stewart · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've read two books about Paul this year in preparation for a trip to Greece and Turkey that includes stops in places visited by Paul. The first was "The First Paul" by Borg and Crossan and of course this one. Borg and Crossan's book centered around Paul's theology and what his original readers would have made of his famous epistles. Picirilli's is more of a biography and a somewhat tedious one at that, filled with lengthy and dry discussions of the dating of Paul's letters, why and to whom they were written, etc. Unlike Borg and Crossan, he accepts all of the epistles attributed to Paul as authentically Pauline, although not without reason. It's also apparent that he comes from a more fundamentalist tradition. Nevertheless, I came away with a far better understanding of Paul's life and world. One particular insight really struck me: Paul was a well-educated Jew of the Dispersal and thus bilingual, fluent in both Greek and Aramaic, making him uniquely suited for the role of apostle to the Gentiles.