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Book SynopsisWhile Paul the apostle is often imagined as prestigious and powerful, Recovering an Undomesticated Apostle repositions Paul as a man at the periphery of power. Essays explore his position of marginality and desperation in a struggle for social recognition as well as physical survival in the ancient Mediterranean underclass.
Trade Review“No other work approaches the topic of Paul in quite the same way. Recovering an Undomesticated Apostle is a collection of well researched, exegetically rigorous essays that adhere to the volume's unifying theme, that is, that Paul has been ‘domesticated’ and that the task of scholars is to make him weird again.” Patrick Gray, Rhodes College and author of Paul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuries
“This volume re-evaluates so many cherished and unquestioned assumptions about Paul. Each essay is provocative in its own way, re-envisaging who Paul was and how to talk about him.” Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University and author of Paul and the Gentile Problem
