This orientation essay provides an overview of the four other articles in this special section on J. M. G. Barclay’s, Paul and the Gift (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2015). After introducing key ideas from Barclay’s work, which focuses on Paul’s letters to the Galatians and Romans, we summarize three studies in which scholars employ Barclay’s method to examine some of the shorter Pauline letters. Wendell L. Willis discusses Philippians; Jerry L. Sumney discusses 2 Thessalonians; and Margaret Y. MacDonald discusses Ephesians. This special section also includes Barclay’s responses to all three. In addition, we explain how this collection of essays originated in the work of the Disputed Paulines Section of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.

本指导性文章概述了本节中有关JMG巴克莱（JMG Barclay），《保罗与礼物》（Paul and the Gift）的其他四篇文章（大瀑布城：Eerdmans，2015）。在介绍了巴克莱的工作中的主要思想（重点是保罗写给加拉太书和罗马书的信）之后，我们总结了三项研究，其中学者们运用巴克莱的方法研究了一些较短的波琳书信。温德尔·威利斯（Wendell L. Willis）讨论腓立比书；杰里·L·萨姆尼（Jerry L. Sumney）讨论了两个帖撒罗尼迦人。玛格丽特·麦克唐纳（Margaret Y. MacDonald）讨论以弗所书。这个特殊部分还包括巴克莱对这三个方面的回应。此外，我们解释了这篇论文集是如何起源于圣经文学学会年会争议保利恩斯分会的工作的。