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Book Reviews : Principles, Populations and Predestination

are found. Not that the author demurely conceals his own views, or dissolves the study into relativism. For him, Paul is the ’man mountain’, and we can appreciate why he says that. He covers the period from Jesus to Paul, indicating the problem of using Acts for the study of Paul and considering the earliest house churches and the spread of the Gospel to Gentiles. Paul’s life is then considered both before and after his cataclysmic experience on the Damascus Road. Other themes include Paul the letter-writer and theologian, and in particular the continuity and discontinuity between Paul’s Jewish and Christian understanding (Kdsemann, Sanders, Dunn and others). The survey of ’new approaches’ to understanding Paul focuses on social-scientific studies, including those of Theissen and Meeks (and challenges to them), and feminist studies (in particular the work of E. Schussler Fiorenza). There is a chapter on Paul’s legacy and a final one on ’Why study Paul today?’ In short, it would be hard to find a more useful concise introduction to the study of Paul than that presented in this book. It also provides