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This essay offers a sampling of recent Jewish interpretations of the Apostle Paul in the last thirty years. Attention is given to the works of Pinchas Lapide, Hyam Maccoby, Alan F. Segal, Daniel Boyarin, Mark D. Nanos and Pamela M. Eisenbaum including a survey of their scholarship and an assessment of their contribution and significance for Pauline studies. This study concludes that Jewish interpretation of Paul remains highly diverse and there is not likely to be a Jewish `reclamation' of Paul in the foreseeable future.

Rhetorical criticism of Paul's letters has become commonplace, especially in commentaries on Paul's writings. However, using the rhetorical handbooks for studying the Pauline writings has come under severe criticism as to whether or not it is methodologically sound to import and apply rhetorical categories to the Pauline letters and to the New Testament in general. This study assesses the value and limits of applying rhetorical criticism to Paul's letters and argues that the letters should be understood principally through epistolography and only secondarily in terms of a functional rhetoric.

This article surveys the debate about the unity of Luke—Acts in recent scholarship. The study concentrates on monographs and articles written after Mikael C. Parsons and Richard I. Pervo's volume Rethinking the Unity of Luke and Acts, and identifies the recent contribution that reception-history studies have brought to the debate. This is followed with a brief analysis of the flashpoints in the debate, and a discussion of what is at stake for Lukan studies.

Joachim Jeremias’s study, Jesus’ Promise to the Nations has significantly impacted scholarly estimations of Jesus’ view of the Gentiles. This study briefly surveys earlier works, critiques Jeremias’s position, identifies other contributors who have either followed Jeremias or have tried to erect an opposing viewpoint. As such, the validity of Jeremias’s conclusion is challenged particularly against the backdrop of an emerging alternative whereby Jesus’ view of the Gentiles is constructed in the context of Jewish restoration eschatology.