N. T. Wright on Jimmy Dunn

You can read NTW's Foreword to

Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives
in Honour of James D. G. Dunn.
A festschrift for his 70th Birthday
(Library of New Testament Studies)

just by "Click to Look Inside" button.

(Warning: There are some differences as to how much you can read from the book's Amazon site. If you go by "Click to Look Inside" button, you can't read NTW's Foreword in full. But if you click the link at the top, you can read all. Or at least I could.)

Since the festschrift itself is priced at $133.00, those who are only interested in reading what NTW has to say about his senior NT scholar will find this time and money-saving.

In fact, it's quite amusing!

For example, NTW has this to say about differing interpretations of the identity of  the "wretched man" in Romans 7:

Ironically, I had already changed my mind by then on one of the things about which, when I first heard Jimmy lecture, I was most excitedly in agreement with him. I had been arguing for some time, against the majority, that the 'wretched man' in Romans 7 was Paul the Christian; here was a scholar senior to me, and a very lively thinker and lecturer, who set out the case as energetically as I had ever heard it, in his own Tyndale lecture of that year. Alas, by the time I completed my thesis I had come to see things very differently: not that I ever agreed with the normal 'majority' reading then prevalent particularly in Germany, but that I had tried to develop a different way again, taking into acount what seemed to me then, and still seem, fatal objections to the 'Christian' reading. Jimmy and I have not revisited that subject for many years now, but I still recall the amused frustration I felt on realizing that one of the things I thought I actually agreed with him on had now become yet another disagreement.

At any rate, even in these several pages of Foreword, you can get a good biographical data about and between the two of the most distinguished British NT scholars of our period.