Daniel Knapper provides the first critical history of Saint Paul's rhetorical style in the Renaissance. The book examines creative responses to Paul's style across a wide range of mediums and genres, showing how writers and artists wrestled not only with the provocative ideas in Paul's New Testament epistles, but also his ways of expressing them. This original study examines how Paul's Greek style influenced Renaissance writers and thinkers who were able to read/translate Paul's words in and from their original language for the first time...The result of this analysis is a convincing argument that the Renaissance imitation, assessment, and assimilation of Pauline style had a significant impact on the development of Renaissance writing and thought....Highly recommended.