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Epistles

Contents:

What is this Module all about?
Useful resources for the Epistles
Epistles Class Schedule
The Student Spot

Resources Addition Form
Contributions to this page

This brief module is covered on Sunday mornings at year two residentials. It gives a brief introduction to various of Paul's Epistles and issues in Pauline Studies. Selected passages and themes will be studied and set in their historical and literary contexts with attention to their potential application today.

The Epistles

Welcome to the Epistles web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources for those studying or about to study the Epistles with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute.

What is this Module all about?

The Epistles sessions give a general Introduction to the Epistles for second year ordinands. The module is designed to give a taster of various subjects in Pauline Studies. The class is taught at University Level Two in a broadly academic environment acknowledging the various methods of modern scholarship but with a view to understanding how this greater knowledge can enhance our devotional use of the bible. It contributes to F101 Ministerial Formation and C101 Ministerial Competence Click here for:

Useful resources for the Epistles
Epistles Class Schedule
Sample class timetables
Sample book lists

Useful resources for Epistles

Books

The following are useful books for this subject:

Hawthorne G et al. Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, Leicester, IVP, 1993
Martin R and Davids P. Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its DevelopmentsLeicester, IVP, 1997
Evans C.A. and Porter S.E. Dictionary of New Testament BackgroundLeicester, IVP, 2000

Why not tell us of some books you have found useful? If the webmaster agrees we'll list them here.

Epistles NT Web Resources

You may find the following web sites helpful when studying the Epistles. Material on the net has no quality control making tutors very wary - and rightly so! Nevertheless there is a growing amount of first class academic work on line particularly coming from Religious Studies Departments of good Universities. Treat with care and you'll find it very useful for essays.

The Internet is not 100% reliable and documents move, disappear and change their names. If you find a link does not work, try again in an hour, a day, or a week. But do feel free to email us to report a link doesn't work. Don't forget to tell us the name of the link!

Gateways to New Testament web sites (Links to links on the NT.)

Rutger's Virtual Religion Index: Links to all matters relating to the New Testament most of a good academic standard.
Hivolda University, Sweden: Lots of good links to English material of reasonable quality.
New Testament Gateway: A list of links to good scholarly and academic works on the NT created and maintained by a NT lecturer from Birmingham University

New Testament Maps

Birmingham's Maps of the Biblical World: The place to go for links to online maps - everything from the spread of Christianity to maps of Jerusalem.
Luther Seminary's Maps of the Biblical World: Maps of the Land of Israel during biblical times.
Maps for Paul: Maps related to the life of Paul and the Letter to the Corinthians.

Online Bibles and Commentaries (usually older versions because they are free)

Crosswire's Bible Tool: Crosswire together with the American Bible Society and SBL has set up this online Bible resource which has innumerable foreign language versions as well as the classic English texts including all Bible Society texts
CCEL Worldwide Study Bible: Gives links to bible versions and commentaries (again usually older and copyright free)for each book and chapter of the bible
Gospelcom's Bible Gateway: If you don't have your own bible search software this site lets you search and print for particular search words or verses in a variety of versions - also useful for comparing bible versions
Crosswalk's Bible Study Tools: Similar to the above, you can see various bibles, commentaries, concordances, dictionaries but also includes Hebrew and Greek.
Internet Christian Library: Articles and links to online bibles, commentaries, bible study materials and other christian books.
Birmingham's All in One Biblical Resources: Mark Goodacres's Birmingham University site includes among other things the ability to search a lot of bible sites i.e. bible versions for particular chapters and verses as well as key words.
Bible.org's commentaries and articles: Contains a growing set of online commentaries on the NT books by a variety of authors. Fairly conservative but engaging with academic subjects and the major scholars. Look around the home page for other useful articles.
McGill University: More biblical studies, bible, commentaries etc. lists
Theology Website: Theology Website has articles on each of the NT books giving background information on the book's structure and background, based on Guthrie's NT Introduction so broadly evangelical.
Bill Loader's NT articles: Bill Loader of Murdoch University Australia has written commentaries and scholarly articles for his classes and for respected journals
St Benet's Hall: Father D Wansbrough has prepared Introductions to the Gospels and Paul for his seminary students in Oxford

Paul and The Epistles (Works dealing with Paul and the Epistles attributed to him)

Textweek's Pauline Articles: A labour of love by Jenee Woodard. Textweek is designed to provide resources related to the Common Lectionary readings. She has come up with many links on Paul - academic and not so academic.
The NT Gateway on Paul: The Pauline section of the NT Gateway. A list of links to good scholarly and academic works on the NT created and maintained by a NT lecturer from Birmingham - lots of links to get you started.
St Paul the Apostle Home Page: A home page for St Paul set up by students at the Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando under Dr R Kidd's oversight
In the footsteps of St Paul: A web site of a tour made by 20 Methodists and Catholics to the sites of Paul's ministry. Helps to root the Pauline epistles in real places and environments. Plenty of photos and good descriptions of then and now.
Bible.org's commentaries and articles: A place to go for online commentaries and articles on each of the Pauline epistles, but fairly traditional and conservative.
Paul's life and theology: Using the Pauline letters this site explores what we can know of Paul's work, his teaching. There is also a section on how the letters interact with the Book of Acts.
The Paul Page: Articles by Mattison on the new perspective on Paul - i.e. the move since Sanders to see Paul in his Jewish context with a much more positive approach to Judaism, the law etc.

Paul and the Law (Works for Session 2)

Perspectives on the Law: A handy chart of the different perspectives on the Law from key New Perspective Writers.
N T Wright edefends his New Perspective: A paper given at a Conference in Edinburgh where Wright gives a vigorous defence of his New Perspective.
ReReading Paul: Brendon Byrne discusses his views behind the book ReReadingPaul.

Online Biblical Journals Bible Studies Journals that appear online

BSW Journal: A site aimed at encouraging biblical studies journals to go online. It gives links to those that are online such as Biblica and American Journal of Biblical Theology. Also has links to commentaries and other bible study tools.

And there are always the General Religion Links as a starting point.

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The Student Spot

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