Title: Never comes to grips with the views it aims to rebut
Review: Touted as a rebuttal to the Pauline scholarship of e.g. Hyam Maccoby (author of _The Mythmaker_ and _Paul and Hellenism_), this alleged rebuttal never gets around to doing the rebutting. Maccoby is mentioned early on, in a footnote, and then his views are NEVER mentioned again.In particular Wenham never deals with Paul's own claim (in 1 Corinthians 15) to have received his "gospel" by direct revelation rather than from the apostles in Jerusalem. This single verse alone would topple Wenham's case -- yet he NEVER ONCE addresses Maccoby's cogent arguments in favor of this reading.In short, this book leaves Pauline scholarship very much where it was: with Paul as the true founder of Christianity. Wenham's work will be convincing only to those who already believe.
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