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Book Description: A brilliant reconsideration of the Apostle Paul his theology is the basis of Christian dogma that explores the ways in which his writings have been misunderstood and how he has been falsely cast as an authoritarian rule maker, misogynist, puritan, and cynical social conformist. Sarah Ruden acclaimed translator of classical texts examines Paul s words in Koine Greek and, for the first time, considers them in the full context of his own era. She looks at how these words might have affected his contemporaries; how they represented the new Church as an alternative to old ways of thinking, feeling, and living; and how they show his own true nature as liberator and reformer, spreading an uncompromising message of love. Ruden translates passages from ancient Greek and Roman literature, from Homer and Aristophanes to Vergil and Seneca, setting them beside famous and controversial passages of Paul and their key modern interpretations. She writes about Augustine; about Paul s treatment of the law ; about George Bernard Shaw s misguided notion of Paul as the eternal enemy of Woman ; and about the misuse of Paul s teachings in the English Puritan Richard Baxter s sermon, The Sinfulness of Flesh Pleasing. Ruden makes clear that Paul s ethics, in contrast, were humane, open, and responsible. Paul Among the People is a remarkable work of scholarship, synthesis, and understanding. It is a revelation of the founder of Christianity.

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