Paul in Ecstasy

by Colleen Shantz

While many readers of Paul's letters recognize how important his experience was to his life and thought, Biblical scholars have not generally addressed this topic head-on. Colleen Shantz argues that they have been held back both by a bias against religious ecstasy and by the limits of the Biblical texts: How do you responsibly access someone else's experience, particularly experience as unusual and debated as religious ecstasy? And how do you account...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521866103
• ISBN13: 9780521866101
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"