"Jesus the Jew I know, and I know about Paul the former Jew; but who are you?". Until very recently, this deliberately playful rewriting of Acts 19:15 could have offered a fairly accurate description of the level of knowledge and interest in Italy regarding the scholarly trend known as the "Paul-within-Judaism Perspective". In recent years, however, things have begun to change. Italy has witnessed the publication of a number of important monographs, as well as the organisation of some significant conferences, devoted to the theme of Paul's Jewishness. All this signals a growing interest in the major renewal of Pauline studies brought about by the PWJP over the last thirty years. This paper aims to provide an overview and an initial assessment of the responses elicited by studies on the Jewish Paul, both within Italian scholarship and in non-specialist publications.