Not everything is said about Paul of Tarsus, despite the fact that since Augustine, and especially since Martin Luther and the Reformation, hundreds of books about him have been written. It is not even clear, as it is firmly stated, that Paul was the "second founder of Christianity" or a strict Pharisee as he himself apparently maintains.
Since 1970 a powerful and new stream of interpretation of Paul's theology has emerged, at the forefront of which are mostly independent evangelical theologians and Jewish historians of Israeli thought, which calls into question views apparently seated for centuries: Can it be held today that everything or part of Paul has been misunderstood for more than fifteen centuries? Was Paul's thought exclusively Jewish despite the setting of his birth and schooling in a Greek world? Did Paul leave the Jewish law? Or did he always behave, even externally, as a practicing Jew? Is it possible to defend that pagans and Jews are saved not by believing in Jesus Christ, but by imitating their acts of fidelity? Did the possible divinization of Jesus on the part of Paul break the strict monotheism of Israel?
Clearly answering these and other burning questions is the core of this «Interpretation of Pauline thought», written in dialogue with exegetical work and the most alive and current scientific discussion. His method is to read the texts carefully, providing a new version of Pablo's letters, to understand what his author wanted to say to his first readers.