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This book explores the historical context of Paul and the way Paul’s Jewish heritage was received, including the specifics of contemporary Jewish phenomena, within the successive generations of Jesus-followers during the first two centuries CE (in and outside the corpus of New Testament writings).
List of contents
Introduction
Frantisek Ábel
Part 1: Knowing What's What in the Early Reception of Paul the Apostle
Chapter 1: Correcting Some Misperceptions About Paul
James H. Charlesworth
Chapter 2: Observations on the Reception of the Pauline Expression "Works of the Law"
Michael Bachmann
Chapter 3: The Perception of Paul's Social Influence in the Corinthian Correspondence
J. Brian Tucker
Chapter 4: "Jezebel," Paul, and the Problem of Mixed Marriage. A Contested Reception of 1 Corinthians at the End of the First Century?
Paul B. Duff
Chapter 5: The Triumph of Paul in Portraits of Peter
Joshua D. Garroway
Part 2: The Early Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Deutero-Pauline Letters
Chapter 6: The Pastoral Epistles and the Jewish Paul
Stefan Krauter
Chapter 7: The Role of Women in Teaching and Learning-Pauline Trajectories in Acts and in the Pastorals?
Kathy Ehrensperger
Chapter 8: Colossian "Philosophy" and Torah: Paul in a New Context (Col 2:6-23)
Karl Olav Sandnes
Chapter 9: The "Man of Lawlessness
About the author
František Ábel is professor of New Testament at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, SlovakiaFrantišek Ábel is professor of New Testament at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, SlovakiaKathy Ehrensperger is research fellow at the Faculty of Theology, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Summary
This book explores the historical context of Paul and the way Paul’s Jewish heritage was received, including the specifics of contemporary Jewish phenomena, within the successive generations of Jesus-followers during the first two centuries CE (in and outside the corpus of New Testament writings).
