It offers a delightfully clear introduction to a way of reading Paul that is generating lots of discussion among New Testament scholars, though not much among clergy and others. While Thiessen offers ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the ...

Dr Helen K Bond is a Senior Lecturer in the New Testament and Director of the Centre for Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity. The apostle Paul often gets a bad press.