Paul: His Story. By Jerome Murphy-O'Connor. Pp. xvi + 259. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. isbn 0 19 926653 0 and 0 19 928384 2. Paper £9.99/16.95
This is a strange, enjoyable, frustrating, and ultimately puzzling book. Murphy-O’Connor presumes the data of Paul's life as he sought to establish them in his 1996 book Paul: A Critical Life, and seeks to infuse them with life. He does this by creating a strong narrative line for Paul's l...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 673-675 |
| Review of: | Paul (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008) (Fowl, Stephen E.)
Paul (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2005) (Fowl, Stephen E.) |
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| Summary: | This is a strange, enjoyable, frustrating, and ultimately puzzling book. Murphy-O’Connor presumes the data of Paul's life as he sought to establish them in his 1996 book Paul: A Critical Life, and seeks to infuse them with life. He does this by creating a strong narrative line for Paul's life and imagining the inner life of the apostle as he followed this narrative line. This requires a good deal of imagination and speculation. This is not, however, a historical novel. Murphy-O’Connor seeks to avoid this sort of genre by not creating ‘highly specific situations or imagined dialogue’ (p. ix). I am not sure it matters whether he succeeds in this or not. This is because I do not know of any other attempt by a scholar to do what Murphy-O’Connor does. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj107 |