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In the framework of a larger research project into 'New Perspectives on Paul and the Jews', eight scholars from Europe, Israel, and North America join forces in querying Paul's relationship to Jews and Judaism. The sample text selected for this inquiry is the Second Letter to the Corinthians, a document particularly suited for this purpose as it reflects violent clashes between Paul and rivalling Jews and Jewish Christians
About the author
Reimund Bieringer is Professor of New Testament Exegesis at KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven). Among his publications are:
Studies in 2 Corinthians (1994, with J. Lambrecht);
Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel (2001, edited together with D. Pollefeyt and F. Vandecasteele-Vanneuville);
Paul and Judaism: Cross-Currents in Pauline Exegesis and the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (2012, with D. Pollefeyt).
Emmanuel Nathan is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders at KU Leuven and has been appointed Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney. His publications include:
2 Corinthians: A Bibliography (2008, with R. Bieringer and D. Kurek-Chomycz) and
New Perspectives on Paul and the New Covenant in 2 Corinthians 3 (2014).
Didier Pollefeyt is Vice-Rector of KU Leuven and Professor of Jewish-Christian Relations and Post-Holocaust Theology in this university. Among his publications are:
Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel (2001, edited together with R. Bieringer and F. Vandecasteele-Vanneuville);
La pensée juive contemporaine (2008, with D. Delmaire);
Holocaust and Nature: On the Relation between Holocaust Studies and Ecological Issues (2013).
Peter J. Tomson retired as Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Brussels and is presently Guest Professor of Jewish Studies at KU Leuven. His publications include:
Paul and the Jewish Law: Halakha in the Letters of the Apostle to the Gentiles (1990) and
The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature (2010, with R. Bieringer, F. García Martínez, and D. Pollefeyt).
