Paul Among Jews and Gentiles, and Other Essays

Paul Among Jews and Gentiles, and Other Essays
Author: Krister Stendahl
Publisher: HSRC Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1976
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780800612245

A sharp challenge to traditional ways of understanding Paul is sounded in this book by a distinguished interpreter of the New Testament. Krister Stendahl proposes-in the key title essay-new ways of exploring Paul's speech: Paul must be heard as one who speaks of his call rather than conversion, of justification rather than forgiveness, or weakness rather than sin, of love rather than integrity, and in unique rather than universal language. The title essay is complemented by the landmark paper, "Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West," and by two seminal explorations of Pauline issues, "Judgement and Mercy" and "Glossolalia-The New Testament Evidence." The book concludes with Stendahl's pointed reply to the eminent scholar Ernst Kasemann who has taken issue with the author's revolutionary interpretations. This volume provides convincingly new ways for viewing Paul, the most formative of Christian teachers.

Paul Among the Gentiles: A "Radical" Reading of Romans

Paul Among the Gentiles: A
Author: Jacob P. B. Mortensen
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2018-08-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3772056563

This exciting new interpretation of Pauls Letter to the Romans approaches Pauls most famous letter from one of the newest scholarly positions within Pauline Studies: The Radical New Perspective on Paul (also known as Paul within Judaism). As a point of departure, the author takes Pauls self-designation in 11:13 as apostle to the gentiles as so determining for Pauls mission that the audience of the letter is perceived to be exclusively gentile. The study finds confirmation of this reading-strategy in the letters construction of the interlocutor from chapter 2 onwards. Even in 2:17, where Paul describes the interlocutor as someone who calls himself a Jew, it requests to perceive this person as a gentile who presents himself as a Jew and not an ethnic Jew. If the interlocutor is perceived in this way throughout the letter, the dialogue between Paul and the interlocutor can be perceived as a continuous, unified and developing dialogue. In this way, this interpretation of Romans sketches out a position against a more disparate and fragmentary interpretation of Romans.

Paul’s Gentile-Jews

Paul’s Gentile-Jews
Author: J. Garroway
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137281146

Drawing upon the concepts of cultural and linguistic hybridity developed by Homi Bhabha, Salman Rushdie, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others, Garroway suggests that the first generation of Gentile converts were uncertain whether they had become Jews or remained Gentiles in the wake of their baptism into Christ.

Paul the Jewish Theologian

Paul the Jewish Theologian
Author: Brad H. Young
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780801048210

Paul the Jewish Theologian reveals Saul of Tarsus as a man who, though rejected in the synagogue, never truly left Judaism. Author Young disagrees with long held notions that Hellenism was the context which most influenced Paul's communication of the Gospel. This skewed notion has led to widely divergent interpretations of Paul's writings. Only in rightly aligning Paul as rooted in his Jewishness and training as a Pharisee can he be correctly interpreted. Young asserts that Paul's view of the Torah was always positive, and he separates Jesus' mission among the Jews from Paul's call to the Gentiles.

Krister Among the Jews and Gentiles

Krister Among the Jews and Gentiles
Author: Fredriksen,Paula
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2018
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587687798

Essays on Krister Stendahl’s contributions in various arenas: institutional formation, both of university and of church; interreligious dialogue and relations; biblical and historical research.

Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles

Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles
Author: Francis Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1989-11-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521388078

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 1984. Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-244) and index.

An Anomalous Jew

An Anomalous Jew
Author: Michael F. Bird
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467445983

Lively, well-informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and controversial Jewish beliefs and a faith in Christ that brought him into conflict with the socio-religious scene around him. Bird elucidates how the apostle Paul was variously perceived — as a religious deviant by Jews, as a divisive figure by Jewish Christians, as a purveyor of dubious philosophy by Greeks, and as a dangerous troublemaker by the Romans. Readers of this book will better understand the truly anomalous shape of Paul’s thinking and worldview.

Jew Among Jews

Jew Among Jews
Author: Kimberly Ambrose
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498218474

Misunderstanding of Paul had started already in his lifetime, and his letters offer many examples of this. Throughout the centuries, Paul has continued to be misunderstood by both Jews and Gentiles, especially in relation to his view of the law and the covenant. Paul has often been misunderstood because his form of argument, his use of Scripture, his view of Jews and Gentiles in Christ (especially of those Jews who were not convinced that Jesus was Messiah), and his view of what constitutes true Judaism do not seem to conform to our expectations and perceptions of the apostle. We have been accustomed to read his letters as of one who was emancipating people from Judaism, as one who sought to obliterate all ethnic and other distinctions rather than maintaining the identity of Jews and Gentiles even in Christ. By building on some of the insights of the New Perspective, and developing other more recent insights as well, a more consistent and credible Paul as a first-century Diaspora Jew organizing a mission to Gentiles will be presented.

Either Jew Or Gentile

Either Jew Or Gentile
Author: Eung Chun Park
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664224530

In this book, Eung Chun Park reconstructs a focused and coherent narrative of the last two decades of the life of Paul as it revolved around the Gentile mission. The result is a detailed and thorough analysis of the Pauline letters that demonstrates how Paul's theology changed over the course of his life as a consequence of his struggle to defend the gospel against the attacks from people who advocated a different kind of gospel. This book traces the development of the two gospels (one that advocated freedom from circumcision and one that advocated observance of circumcision) as they encountered such landmark events as the Apostolic Council in Jerusalem, the Antioch incident, the Galatian incident, the Corinthian incident, and Paul's last visit to Jerusalem.