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When N.T. Wright was composing a massive 1600+ page treatment of Paul he wanted to begin with an overview of how scholars have interpreted the apostle over the years. It quickly became apparent that the topic could fill its own book, so Paul and His Recent Interpreters was born.
In this episode Wright explains how various historical figures understood Paul throughout the centuries. Along the way we see how immediate concerns of interpreters shape the questions people ask of scripture and the answers they develop.
Wright has been called the “C. S. Lewis” of our time, and while he’s a more accomplished scholar of the New Testament than Lewis ever was, the comparison mainly speaks to Wright’s skill at making technical things understandable to the rest of us.
About N. T. Wright
N. T. Wright is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, now serving as Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews. He taught New Testament studies for 20 years at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford Universities. He’s written over seventy books, including a new translation of the New Testament and a massive series called Christian Origins and the Question of God. His most recent books include Paul and the Faithfulness of God, The Paul Debate, and Paul and His Recent Interpreters. He offers many New Testament courses online at ntwrightonline.org. For more on Wright and Paul, see the interviews here.
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