Preface and Introduction

Biography: Jopling 1992; O’Brien 1991 (also antibiography); Weitzman 2011, ix–xxvi. Doing history: Tosh 2010, 88–146. Ancient letters as historical sources: White 2010, 63–64. Excellent introductions to Paul's life and letters, the Pauline pseudepigrapha, and the problem of using the Acts of the Apostles as history: Collins 1988; Ehrman 2012, 306–434; Knox 1987; Meeks and Fitzgerald 2007, xiv–xix; Roetzel 1998 and 2009. Ancient forgery: Ehrman 2011 and forthcoming. Paul and Gentile Christianity: Mitchell 2006.

Chapter 1

Paul's birth and education: Baumgarten 2000; Donfried 2006; Engberg-Pedersen 2001; Hays 1989; Hock 2003; Jaffee 2001, 39–64; Mason 2009, 185–215; Saldarini 1992; Stowers 1994. The event at Damascus and Paul's apocalyptic hope for Gentiles: Betz 1992; Eisenbaum 2009; Fredriksen 2002 and 2008, 20–39; Fredriksen 2012, 22–49; Riesner 1998, 14–15; Stendahl 1976, 7–23. Diaspora synagogues: Rajak 2006. From persecutor to apostle: Gager 1981; Hultgren 1976. Epiphanies and confessors: Lane Fox 1986, 376–81; Winkler 1985, 233–34, 238–41. Flight from Damascus: Campbell 2002; Welborn 1999. Jerusalem and Antioch: Fredriksen 2008, 16–40; Murphy-O’Connor 1996, 130–57; Sanders 1990.