Since the publication of its first edition, The Letters of Paul has proven to be a reliable text and reference tool. It is an exemplary guide to the basic issues surrounding the Pauline letterswho really wrote each letter; when it was written; the letters social context, audience, and literary characteristicsand also includes discussion of the worlds of Paul, the letter genre, and the rhetorical arrangement of each letter. More than 40 percent of the material has been revised for this second edition. The authors have taken account of a host of diverse cultural, historical, sociorhetorical, literary, and contextual studies of recent years and critically reexamined several issues of authorship, date, historical situation, literary form, and rhetorical structure. They have addressed new and pressing issues, filled certain lacunae, and generally updated the book for a new generation of readers.