The New Perspective on Paul

I have occasionally been asked (and many more times wished that people would ask) what people should read as an introduction to The New Perspective on Paul (NPP). I think the biggest problem with many more recent overviews you read is that they talk about the NPP when really they mean Tom Wright's version of it. I think dealing with the stripped down original is the best place to begin though, and for that Jimmy Dunn's essay from 1982 is great. People now seem to skip from Sanders to Wright in any discussion of NPP and yet it was Jimmy Dunn who not only gave it the name, but also shaped the form of all later debate. Unfortunately until a few days ago the essay was not on the internet, but now it is go and read it twice:

• The New Perspective on Paul by James DG Dunn