Join a group of renowned international New Testament and Second Temple Judaism scholars as they explore Paul as a Jewish theologian. Jettisoning the assumption that Paul left behind the majority of his Jewish heritage—a belief still prevelant after 30 years of the “New Perspective,”—following the appearance of Jesus Christ to him on the Damascus Road, these scholars attempt to refine the New Perspective even further. A helpful introductory chapter surveys recent study of Paul and highlights the core questions about Paul’s post-conversion relationship to Judaism and its implications for Christian understanding of Paul’s thought. Other chapters explore the implications of reading Paul as aimed at Christ-following non-Jews, teaching them how to live in ways consistent with Judaism while remaining gentiles.
The contributors take different methodological approaches: historical, ideological-critical, gender-critical, and empire-critical, and examine issues of terminology and of interfaith relations. Surprising common ground among the contributors presents a coherent alternative to the “New Perspective.” The volume concludes with a critical evaluation of the Paul within Judaism perspective by Terence L. Donaldson, a well-known voice representative of the best insights of the New Perspective.
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