The Rev. Frank J. Matera is a professor at the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has written extensively on Paul and the New Testament.

Garry Wills is an adjunct professor in the history department at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He is one of the foremost popular scholars writing on Christianity and church history and is author of the 2006 book What Paul Meant.

Pheme Perkins is a theology professor at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. She is a highly regarded New Testament expert.

Bruce L. McCormack is a professor of systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. McCormack edited Justification in Perspective: Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges (2006), essays inspired by developments of the NPP.

John Dominic Crossan is emeritus professor of religious studies at DePaul University in Chicago. He is a prominent expert on historical Christianity and co-author of In Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire With God’s Kingdom.

Catholic Bishop Michael Saltarelli of the Diocese of Wilmington, Del., has a column featuring 10 ways to mark the Pauline year.

See an additional extensive resource cache on St. Paul from Catholic News Service.

See an extensive resource cache on St. Paul from Catholic News Service.

Read Dec. 6, 2006, Associated Press article in USA Today about the discovery of a tomb believed by some to be that of Paul the Apostle.