Gray, Patrick. Opening Paul's Letters: A Reader's Guide to Genre and Interpretation.(Brief article)(Book review)

Gray, Patrick. Opening Paul's Letters: A Reader's Guide to Genre and Interpretation. Baker Academic: Baker Bk. House. 2012. c.192p, index. ISBN 9780801039225. pap. $19.99. REL

Gray (religious studies, Rhodes Coll.; Godly Fear: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critiques of Superstition) provides an easily accessible introduction to Paul's epistles and the canonical letters often attributed to him. Gray's careful literary analysis focuses especially on the letters' literary genre and on various subgenres found within the letters: As a diaspora Jew, Paul's native language was Greek, so Gray emphasizes Greek literary genres and forms, but he also references …