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This book provides various perspectives concerning Paul's message in the context of Jewish eschatological expectation, particularly the notions of the end-time redemption of Israel and its relation to the Gentiles, the non-Jewish nations.
List of contents
Part 1: Paul the Apostle in the Context of Jewish Eschatological Apocalyptical Notions
Chapter One The Making and Unmaking of Jews in Second Century BCE Literature and the Implication for Interpreting Paul
Genevive DibleyChapter Two Paul and the Joining of the Ways: Ordering the Eschaton, Preparing for Judgment
Anders RunessonChapter Three From Aristeas to the Apocalypse of Abraham: A Survey of Some Hellenistic Jewish Texts Relating to the Issue of Israel and its Relationship to the Other Nations
Eric NoffkeChapter Four What Eschatological Pilgrimage of the Gentiles?
Matthew V. NovensonChapter Five Eschatological Universalism, the Nations, and the Jewish Apocalyptic Paul
Loren T. StuckenbruckChapter Six Did the LXX of the Twelve Prophets Contribute to the Eschatological Opening to the Nations?
Patrick PouchelleChapter Seven Paul Between Judaism and Hellenism
Imre PeresPart 2: The Specifics of Paul's Message Concerning End-Time Redemption of Israel and Its Role
Towards the Nations
(ethn¿)
Chapter Eight
Isräl (and
Isrälit¿s) in Paul, Particularly in Galatians
Michael BachmannChapter Nine Bending Knees and Acknowledging Tongues (Phil 2:9-11) - The Nations' Loyalty to the God of Israel in the Shadow of the Empire
Kathy EhrenspergerChapter Ten '"But It Is Not as Though the Word of God Had Failed': Israel as a Sub-Text in Romans?"
William S. CampbellChapter Eleven The Ins and Outs of Paul's Israelite Remnant
Joshua GarrowayChapter Twelve The Gentile as Insider and Outsider in Paul's Letter to the Romans
Kenneth AtkinsonChapter Thirteen "If you are called a Judean ...." (Rom 2:17): Paul and his Interlocutor
Markus ÖhlerChapter Fourteen "All Israel Will Be Saved" or "Kept Safe"? (Rom 11:26): Israel's Conversion or Irrevocable Calling to Gospel the Nations?
Mark D. NanosChapter Fifteen Paul, the Israelite, on Israel and the Gentiles at the End of Time: Reflections on Rom 9-11
Karl-Wilhelm NiebuhrChapter Sixteen
Pesher Concerning Righteousness (Romans 10:5-13) in Relation to the Response of Jews and Gentiles to the Gospel
František Ábel
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.Anders Runesson is professor of New Testament at the University of Oslo.
