This volume has 1 and 2 Corinthians as its main focus where the various contributors address significant aspects of text, language, background, theology and exegesis.
The first part of the volume deals with the issues of textual criticism and traditions available to Paul, while the second section is interdisciplinary in nature and integrates different methodologies such as social-scientific and rhetorical criticism in order to provide new insights into the text.
The third and longest section addresses the varied theological problems which the community raised with Paul, including sexual matters, the timing of the resurrection the resurrection body, authority and headship, soteriology, and the question of Paul's faithfulness and integrity.
The final section concentrates on the identity of Paul's opponents, his visions and apologetics.

Trevor J. Burke, Ph.D. (2001) in New Testament, University of Glasgow, is Lecturer in New Testament and Head of the Department of Biblical Studies at Pacific Theological College, Suva, Fiji. He has published several articles on Pauline Theology and his monograph is entitled: Family Matters: A Socio-Historical Study of Kinship Metaphors in 1 Thessalonians (Sheffield Academic Press, 2003).
J.K. Elliott, D.Phil. (Oxford), D.D. (Wales), teaches New Testament Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on New Testament textual criticism and is editor of The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford, 1993).