Paul

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor OP was born in Cork, Ireland, and educated at the Christian Brothers College, Cork, and Castleknock College, Dublin. He entered the Irish Province of the Dominican order in September 1953 and, after studies at the the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1960. After he completed his doctorate, he researched the Dead Sea Scrolls at Heidelberg University, Germany, and New Testament theology at Tubingen University, Germany. Since 1967 he has been based at the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Francaise, Jerusalem, where he is Professor of New Testament.

• 1. The Early Years ; 2. Conversion and its Consequences ; 3. Apprenticeship in Antioch ; 4. A Journey into Europe ; 5. South to Achaia ; 6. Antioch and Jerusalem ; 7. The First Year in Ephesus ; 8. The Second Year in Ephesus ; 9. Conversations with Corinth ; 10. Macedonia and Illyricum ; 11. Farewell to the East ; 12. The Final Years

a brief and manageable book which, with remarkable success, tries to summarize what we know of Paul; to provide a plausible pattern and chronology of his life and mission, and to demonstrate his development and essential coherence of his written works...If you are a parish priest read it to reaffirm the background to your preaching and exposition.