Gregory Tatum looks at Paul's authentic letters, by recognizing the occasional nature of Paul's correspondence, and by offering a new approach of using rhetoric as opposed to linear theological development. In the final chapter, Tatum relates Acts to this chronological scheme, presents a chronology of the events of Paul's life, and distributes the authentic letters among those events.

Gregory Tatum, O.P. is extraordinary professor at École Biblique et Archéologique Française.