Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism

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The decades-long effort to understand the apostle Paul within his Jewish context is now firmly established in scholarship on early Judaism, as well as on Paul. The latest fruit of sustained analysis appears in the essays gathered here, from leading international scholars who take account of the latest investigations into the scope and variety present in Second Temple Judaism. Contributors address broad historical and theological questions—Paul's thought and practice in relationship with early Jewish apocalypticism, messianism, attitudes toward life under the Roman Empire, appeal to Scripture, the Law, inclusion of Gentiles, the nature of salvation, and the rise of Gentile-Christian supersessionism—as well as questions about interpretation itself, including the extent and direction of a "paradigm shift" in Pauline studies and the evaluation of the Pauline legacy. Paul the Jew goes as far as any effort has gone to restore the apostle to his own historical, cultural, and theological context, and with persuasive results. Preface ix The Three Paths to Salvation of Paul the Jew Gabriele Boccaccini (with responses by Albert I. Baumgarten and Daniel Boyarin) Introduction 1 Part I. Paul and Scripture/Paul in Scripture 1. Who Is the Righteous Remnant in Romans 9–11? The Concept of Remnant in Early Jewish Literature and Paul’s Letter to the Romans Shayna Sheinfeld 33 2. The “Historical Paul” and the Paul of Acts Which Is More Jewish? Isaac W. Oliver 51 Part II. Paul and Second Temple Apocalypticism 3. Paul, the Jewish Apocalypses, and Apocalyptic Eschatology James H. Charlesworth 83 4. Paul’s Messianic Christology Larry W. Hurtado 107 5. Heavenly Mysteries and Otherworldly Journeys Interpreting 1 and 2 Corinthians in Relation to Jewish Apocalypticism Matthew Goff 133 Part III. Paul and Gentile Inclusiveness 6. Paul and the Food Laws A Reassessment of Romans 14:14, 20 David Rudolph 151 7. The Pauline Ἐκκλησίαι and Images of Community in Enoch Traditions Kathy Ehrensperger 183 Part IV. Paul between Empire and Jewish Identity 8. Engendering Judaism Paul, Baptism, and Circumcision Joshua Garroway 219 9. Paul’s Jewish Identity in the Roman World Beyond the Conflict Model Jeremy Punt 245 Part V. Paul beyond Judaism? 10. Paul the Jew Was Also Paul the Hellenist Anders Klostergaard Petersen 273 11. Paul, Antisemitism, and Early Christian Identity Formation William Campbell 301 12. Discussing/Subverting Paul Polemical Rereadings and Competing Supersessionist Misreadings of Pauline Inclusivism in Late Antiquity: A Case Study on the Apocalypse of Abraham, Justin Martyr, and the Qur’an Carlos A. Segovia 341 Index of Names 363