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There are two overlapping themes which serve as the focus of Cultural Translation and Receptions of Paul in the First Four Centuries: (a) "reception" of the apostle Paul in subsequent Christian traditions, and (b) the hypothesis that while Paul himself continued to think as a Jew, he was subsequently re-interpreted by non-Jews in non-Jewish and anti-Jewish ways: the so-called "Paul within Judaism" school.The distinctive focus of this volume is on the dynamic of "cultural translation," meaning, for example, the translation from the cultural world of Diaspora Judaism and its Septuagint to Greek philosophical and Greek Christian categories. The contributions to the book are diverse, ranging from younger to more senior scholars from both North America and Europe.
List of contents
Introduction,
Frantisek ÁbelPart I: Theorizing Paul the Apostle in Cultural Contexts
Chapter 1: Did Paul Truly Become All Things to All People? Revisiting the Claim in 1 Corinthians 9,
Esther KobelChapter 2: From Paul to Nicaea: Social Memory Theory and the Inculturation of the Gospel into Graeco-Roman Contexts,
Sandra HuebenthalChapter 3: Paul and Roman Citizenship,
Valéria Terézia DanciakováChapter 4: Clothes Make the Jew - Even in the Diaspora,
Hans FörsterChapter 5: Examining Paul's Thought and Its Development in Light of the First Jewish Revolt,
Kenneth AtkinsonChapter 6: Contextualizing Paul: Between the Maccabean Wars of 167-141 BCE and the Jewish War of 66-70 CE,
James Hamilton CharlesworthChapter 7: The Emergence of Proto-Supersessionism in Rome,
William S. CampbellChapter 8: Cultural Translation in Corinth: An Application of Kathy Ehrensperger's Method in the Formation of Gentile Identity in 1 Corinthians,
J. Brian TuckerPart II: Paul the Apostle Refracted in the Canon
Chapter 9: Swimming in the Sea of Paul: Mark, Matthew, Marcion, and the Formation of the New Testament,
Joshua D. GarrowayChapter 10: Remembering the Antioch Incident: Pauline Reception in Matthew in an Antiochene Context,
Michaela PrihrackiChapter 11: Paul in the Context of the Ephesian Tradition: The Image of the Apostle and the City Through the Lens of Different Genres and Collective Memory,
Jirí LukesChapter 12: Was Luke a "Good" Disciple of Paul? Luke's Reception of the Pauline Gospel of Justification,
Simon ButticazChapter 13: Pauline and Early Post-Pauline Statements on the "Gospel," on "Israel," on the "Law," and on "Works",
Michael BachmannChapter 14: The Transformation of Paul's "Works of the Law" into "Honest Deeds" in the Letter to Titus,
Michael Scott RobertsonChapter 15: Reception of Paul in 2 Peter 3:14-18 as an Early Witness to the Emergence of an Antinomian Paul without Judaism,
Jakub Michal PogonowskiPart III: Paul's Judaism in Later Traditions
Chapter 16: Didache 6.2-3 and Paul the Apostle: Getting the Crux in Perspective of the Apostolic Authority,
Frantisek ÁbelChapter 17: Tertullian, Theodoret, and Augustine on Paul's Pharisaic Affiliation: Reception of Phil 3:5 and Paul's Jewishness in the First Centuries,
Ruben A. BühnerChapter 18: The Jewish Paul in Pelagius's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles,
Stefan KrauterChapter 19: Older will Serve the Younger (Rom 9:12): Esau and Jacob in Paul and in Tertullian,
Kathy EhrenspergerChapter 20: Origen Has the Mind of Christ,
Daniel Boyarin
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, SlovakiaKenneth Atkinson is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.Kathy Ehrensperger is Research Professor New Testament in Jewish Perspective, Abraham GeigerCollege, at the University of Potsdam, Germany.Esther Kobel is professor of New Testament at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.J. Brian Tucker is Professor of New Testament at Moody Theological Seminary, USA, and an external affiliate at The Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary’s University, UK.
