The contribution discusses the outcomes of Douglas Campbell’s book Framing Paul. Campbell seeks to situate Paul within his historical context and to establish a new chronology of his epistles. He rejects the traditional approach to the theme through an Acts Epistles synthesis, by utilizing only the epistles as his primary source material. Although the Campbell’s book may be considered as well written and intriguing, it hardly can replace the concept which prevails in the New Testament scholarship, a concept based on the conventional methodological assumptions like pseudoepigraphy in Pauline epistles and the relevancy of the Acts for the investigation of the life of Paul.