In a project such as this one many people have played a part. Thanks are due to the living authors and to the original publishers of the essays for their contributions to the volume. On the subject of translation, Dr. Eckhard Schnabel kindly agreed to translate his own essays. The subject of Paul's ethics is of vital importance to understanding Paul and his letters. On any count practical teaching takes up a large proportion of every one of Paul's letters. After all, the thinking of the first Christian churches, but to transform their behaviour. Yet by comparison with some other subjects Paul's ethics has been somewhat neglected by New Testament Scholarship.