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Acting Jewishly But Not Jewish, Part 1
Paul’s “Jewish Assemblies” rather than “Paul’s Gentile Churches”? “Paul’s Jewish non-Jews” instead of “Paul’s Christian Gentiles?”? Paul bringing Non-Jews into “Judaism” rather than into...
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Book Review of “Paul within Judaism,” The Introduction
A new perspective in Pauline scholarship is represented in this volume. This perspective is readily distinguishable from other interpretations of the apostle, including the collection of views now...
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Book Review of “Paul within Judaism: The State of the Questions”
I may not be inclined to agree with the late Christopher Hitchens that religion poisons everything, but in the case of Pauline studies it could, however, easily be argued that research discipline has...
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Book Review of Paul Within Judaism, “The Question of Terminology: The...
Over the last decade or so, more and more scholars of the New Testament have pointed to the need to re-think the terminology we use in our analyses as well as our teaching. Several terms have been...
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Book Review of Paul Within Judaism, The Question of Identity: Gentiles as...
I have long puzzled over how to understand the gentiles in Paul, both from his perspective and their own perspective. I operate under the assumption that he is writing primarily to them and his goal is...
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Book Review of Paul within Judaism, “The Question of Worship: Gods, Pagans,...
Paul’s convictions about the impeding dawn of God’s kingdom place him securely within the world of the late Second Temple Jewish apocalyptic hope. But Paul’s biblical tradition was Greek, not Aramaic...
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Book Review of Paul Within Judaism, “The Question of Politics: Paul as a...
The measure of Paul’s Jewish identity remains a matter of considerable controversy in current scholarship. As Pamela Eisenbaum observes, the question has provoked anxiety among some scholars, and not...
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The Illusion of the Unified Body of Messiah
In the article, I tackled the now-familiar “trajectories” model of early Christian developments proposed influentially by James Robinson and Helmut Koester, showing examples of how it has involved...
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