Searching Paul: Conversations with the Jewish Apostle to the Nations. Collected Essays

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Preface Table of Contents I. Introduction 1. Searching Paul II. Gender and Traditions 2. Paul and the Authority of Scripture: A Feminist Perception 3. The Question(s) of Gender: Relocating Paul in Relation to Judaism 4. Paul, Emasculated Apostle or Manly Man? Gendered Aspects of Cultural Translation 5. At the Table: Common Ground Between Paul and the Historical Jesus 6. The Pauline Ἐκκλησίαι and Images of Community in Enoch Traditions III. Among Greeks and Romans 7. Speaking Greek under Rome: Paul, the Power of Language and the Language of Power 8. Between Polis, Oikos, and Ekklesia: The Challenge of Negotiating the Spirit World (1 Cor 12:1–11) 9. Embodying the Ways in Christ: Paul’s Teaching of the Nations 10. The Absence of ..s.ße.a in Paul: Peculiarities of Cultural Translation IV. The Language of Belonging 11. Paul, His People, and Racial Terminology 12. Narratives of Belonging: The Role of Paul’s Genealogical Reasoning 13. What’s in a Name? Ideologies of Volk, Rasse, and Reich in German New Testament Interpretation Past and Present V. Romans 14. Reading Romans “in the Face of the Other”: Levinas, the Jewish Philosopher, Meets Paul, the Jewish Apostle 15. “Called to be Saints”: the Identity Shaping Dimension of Paul’s Priestly Discourse in Romans1 16. The “Mysterion” in Romans 11:25–36: No Mystery But a Space for Reconciliation 17. The Ministry to Jerusalem (Rom 15:31): Paul’s Hopes and Fears 18. The New Perspective on Paul and Beyond VI. Early Reception 19. Striving for Office and the Exercise of Power in the “House of God”: Reading 1 Tim 3:1–16 in Light of 1 Cor 4:1 20. Διδάσκαλος ἐθνῶν.: Pauline Trajectories According to 1 Timothy Bibliography Acknowledgements Ancient Sources Index Modern Authors Index