Portrait of an Apostle

"Portrait of an Apostle lays bare the naked emperor of critical scholarship with a sustained historical and exegetical defense of Pauline authorship of two disputed letters in the corpus Paulinum. MaGee is to be applauded for the evidence he has marshaled for a view that is too often glossed over without genuine interaction."

--Daniel B. Wallace, Professor of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary



"Most treatments of the authenticity or the pseudonymity of Ephesians and Colossians churn over well-trodden ground. In addition to evaluating the standard arguments, MaGee breaks new ground in the controls he introduces as he evaluates the portrayals of Paul in these letters as compared with portrayals of Paul in letters that all sides agree are pseudonymous. . . . No one studying or writing in this area in the future can afford to ignore MaGee's work."

--D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School