As one who regularly attended the Pauline seminars at the invitation of the Benedictine monastery of St Paul-Outside-the-Walls in Rome, Murphy O-Connor was involved in the detailed and extended discussion of papers on Paul's letters, and this volume continues that pattern. Even the ‘additional notes’ involve the character of and sometimes the participants present at (even if now departed) those ecumenical seminars. The twelve articles concerning Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians, parallel to his earlier collection based on 1 Corinthians, are up-dated by means of bibliographies although not necessarily using the material from the added references. They represent not merely key subjects, but also key approaches which the author has worked with over the years. His lively debating style and ability to give the text a living context are much in evidence. Sometimes key approaches, such as arguing that a problematic text is a quotation from his addressees seem overused, especially in the light of warnings about mirror-reading; may not 2 Cor. v. 6, 8 yield more readily to Vogel's Commentatio mortis? Regarding the old chestnut as to which letter was Paul's last to Corinth, the author's admission that Paul's sparse information on who went where and when, has to be used wisely, leaves me wondering what happened to all the representatives who, according to 2 Cor ix, were actually converging on Corinth, of which Paul's last letter, on the author's theory, only mentions two. Had they all gone home? With the money? The major advantage of the author's writing is that you can help being drawn into the discussion, and because he knows the texts well his case is always well supported. More should be said about the co-authorship of Paul's letters, and this collection opens with just such an article. Perhaps Timothy should be given more credit, as someone adept at picking up the pieces after Paul. Access to the articles included here is not always easy, so, together with the postscripts, this is a welcome symposium.