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Zusatztext Benjamin White's new study of Paul is sure to provoke considerable interest Informationen zum Autor Benjamin L. White is Assistant Professor of Religion at Clemson University where he specializes in ancient and modern interpretations of the New Testament, the reconstruction of Christian origins, and the development of early Christianities. He received a Ph.D. in Ancient Mediterranean Religions from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Klappentext Who was Paul of Tarsus? Radical visionary of a new age? Gender-liberating progressive? Great defender of orthodoxy? In Remembering Paul, Benjamin L. White offers a critique of early Christian claims about the "real" Paul in the second century C.E.¿a period in which apostolic memory was highly contested¿and sets these ancient contests alongside their modern counterpart: attempts to rescue the "historical" Paul from his "canonical" entrapments. White chartsthe rise and fall of various narratives about Paul and argues that Christians of the second century had no access to the "real" Paul. Through the selection, combination, and interpretation of pieces of a diverse earlier layer of the Pauline tradition, Christians defended images of the Apostle that wereimportant for forming collective identity. Zusammenfassung Who was Paul of Tarsus? Radical visionary of a new age? Gender-liberating progressive? Great defender of orthodoxy? In Remembering Paul, Benjamin L. White offers a critique of early Christian claims about the "real" Paul in the second century C.E.-a period in which apostolic memory was highly contested-and sets these ancient contests alongside their modern counterpart: attempts to rescue the "historical" Paul from his "canonical" entrapments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations I. Introducing "Paul" II. Capturing Paul: F.C. Baur and the Rise of the Pauline Captivity Narrative III. Re-Imagining Paul: Recent Portrayals of "Paul in the Second Century" IV. Remembering Paul: Pauline Memory Traditions into the Second Century V. Reclaiming Paul: The Image of Paul n 3 Corinthians VI. Expounding Paul: The Image of Paul in Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses VII. Practicing Paul Appendices Notes Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Subjects Index of Modern Scholars ...
