Description: I Corinthians is Volume 32 inthe Anchor Bible series of new book-by-booktranslations of the Old and New Testaments andApocrypha. William S. Orr and James Arthur Walther are,respectively, Professor Emeritus and AssociateProfessor of New Testament at the PittsburghTheological Seminary. St. Paul's ICorinthians stands as one of the Bible'sgreatest masterpieces and certainly one of thegreatest contributions to Christian theology. Theepistle "To the Church which is in Corinth..."addresses itself to the basic tenets of Christianfaith as well as down-to-earth matters of moralconduct and standards of Christian living, includingsuch topics as speaking in tongues, theResurrection, the Lord's Supper, and the problems ofmarriage. This letter also includes Paul's memorabledefinition of Christian love. Theman who laid the foundations of Christian theologyremains important not only for what he taught, butfor who he was. Professors Orrand Walther ask--and answer--"What Kind of ManWas Paul?" in their own extendedintroductory biography of the man: a look at his life, hisministry, and his beliefs.

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