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Paul lived, worked, and wrote within a complex and multiply integrated world. He was a Jew, a Roman citizen, and lived during a time when the Greek/Hellenistic culture permeated most of the Eastern Mediterranean world. In his epistles, Paul addresses numerous concerns and topics which were affecting local churches. Some scholars have dedicated their entire careers focusing their attention on the life and writings of St. Paul. One of the most formidable scholars on Paul, N.T. Wright, sums up Paul's core message nicely when he says "Paul offered Christians a vision, rooted in Jewish scriptures, reshaped around Jesus and the Spirit, and claiming to be the reality of which paganism possessed a parody."

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