Receptions of Paul During the First Two Centuries Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity

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).

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).

Product details

• Assisted by: Frantisek Abel (Editor), Frantisek Ábel (Editor), Franti¿ek Ábel (Editor), František Ábel (Editor)
• Authors: Frantisek Abel
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.09.2023
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology
• EAN: 9781978715813
• ISBN: 978-1-978715-81-3
• Pages: 516
• Subjects: RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Judaism / History, Early Christianity, History of Religion, Judaism, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, New Testaments, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, reception history, Second Temple Judaism, paul the apostle, paul as convert, receptions of Paul, paul's jewish heritage