Adela Yarbro Collins. Paul Transformed: Reception of the Person and Letters of Paul in Antiquity. The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.Yarbro Collins’s goal in Paul Transformed is to capture the multiple images of Paul that early Christ-confessors created from reading the apostle’s letters. In the process, she examines five areas of Paul’s theology, which Yarbro Collins derives from his so-called undisputed letters,[1] and tracks the various interpretations of these theological tenets in Christian writings from the first to the fourth centuries CE (and sometimes beyond). ...
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