Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel’s Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters

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As a sequel to the hugely successful Jesus and the Heritage of Israel, this book brings together fourteen internationally acclaimed scholars in antiquities studies and experts on Paul and Luke. The contributors provoke new approaches to the troubled relation of the Lukan Paul by re-configuring the figure and impact of Paul upon nascent Christianity, with the two leading questions as a driving force. First, ‘Who is “Israel” and the “church” for Luke and Luke’s Paul’ and secondly ‘Who is Jesus of Nazareth and who is Paul in relation to both?’ The contributors provide challenging new perspectives on approaches to the figure of Paul in recent scholarship as well as in the scholarship of previous generations, ‘re-figuring’ Paul by examining both how he is portrayed in Acts, and how the Pauline figure of Acts may be envisioned within Paul’s own writings. Paul and the Heritage of Israel thus accomplishes what no other single volume has done: combining both the ‘Paul of Paul’ and the ‘Paul of Luke’ in one seminal volume. Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Contributors Introduction Part I Re-figuring Paul Chapter 1 On the “Paulinism” of Acts I II III IV Chapter2 The Paul of Luke. A Survey of Research I. The Turning Point in Critical Exegesis: Source criticism and theReopening of the Question of the Historicity of Acts with regard to theFigure of Paul II. F. C. Baur, the Tübingen School, and Tendenzkritik: The Paul of LukeIs Not the Paul of History III. M. Dibelius, H. Cadbury, and ‘Style criticism’: The Paul of Historyas the Object of Luke’s Literary Practice IV. Redaction Criticism: Paul as Decisive Witness to the Beginnings ofthe Church, Representing Lukan Theology V. The Turn to the New Criticism and the Debate over Paul’s CulturalRootedness VI. The Contribution of Narrative Analysis: the Paul of Acts as aCharacter Inherited from the Pauline Tradition VII. Conclusion Chapter3 The Paulinism of Acts, Intertextually Reconsidered I. Introduction: Comparing the Theologies of Paul and Acts II. OT Readings in Acts: Some Examples III. The Lukanism of Paul? Intertextual Common Ground Chapter4 The Development of Pauline Christianity from a ‘Religion ofConversion’ to a ‘Religion of Tradition I. The Analytical Categories II. Pauline Christianity as a Religion of Conversion III. The Development to a Religion of Tradition IV. The Reception of Pauline Theology in the Post-Pauline Writings V. A View Ahead Chapter 5 Paul After Paul: a (Hi)story of Reception I.The Paul of the epistles and the Paul of Acts: Between Incompatibilityand Harmonization II. A Typology of the Reception of Paul III. A Differentiated Reception of Paul IV. Conclusion Chapter 6 Paul’s Plac e in Early Christianity I. Constructing Early Christianity II. Irenaeus III. Luke-Acts IV. Paul and Magic V. Paul and the New Testament VI. Canon and History Part II The Figure and Legac y of Paul in the Book of Acts Chapter7 Luke’s ‘Witness of Witnesses’: Paul as Definer and Defenderof the Tradition of the Apostles – ‘from the Beginning’ I. ‘The Beginning’ as Determining the ‘Continuity of the Narrative’ ΙΙ. ‘The from the Beginning Eyewitnesses and Attendants’ as DefiningApostolic ‘Witness’ to ‘All that Jesus Began to Do and to Teach’ (Lk.1.2→Acts 1.1) III. From Leading the Witnesses to Leading ‘Witness’: Paul as theDefiner and Defender of ‘the from the Beginning’ ‘Witness’ of theApostles to ‘All that Jesus Began to Do and to Teach’ Chapter 8 ‘Has God Rejected His People?’ (Romans 11.1).The Salvation of Israel in Acts: Narrative Claim of aPauline Legac y I. The Paulinism of Acts: A Brief Look Back II. Finding a Conceptual Model for the Phenomenon of Reception III. The Fate of Israel from Paul to the Acts of the Apostles: BetweenTheological Continuity and Historical Drift IV. Summary and Conclusion Chapter9 (Not) App ealing to the Emperor: Acts (and the Acts of Paul) I. Introduction II. The Loyalist Tradition: Romans 13.1-7 and Its Successors III. Luke and Empire IV. Not Praying for the Emperor V. Acts of Paul 14 VI. Squaring the Circle VII. Conclusion Chapter 10 In Paul’s Defence: The Contribution of Cramer’s Catena tothe Early Reception of Paul in Acts I. Introduction II. Cramer’s Catenae III. Select Scholia from Cramer’s Acts Catena IV. Summarizing the Arguments of the Catena V. Conclusion Part III The Pauline Figure of Acts within the PaulineLegacy Chapter11 Paul the Founder of the Church: Reflections on theReception of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles and thePastoral Epistles I. Introduction II. The Significance of Paul’s Person III. The suffering Paul IV. The Teaching of Paul V. Conclusion Chapter 12 From the ‘Least of All the Saints’ to the ‘Apostle of JesusChrist’: The Transformation of Paul in the First Century I. Apostle or Chosen Vessel? II. Paul and the Apostles III. The Definitive Voice IV. Conclusions Appendix 1 Chapter 13 Auctoritas Pauli acc ording to the Deutero-Pauline Literature and the Acts of the Apostles I. By Way of Introduction: Presuppositions and Approach II. Pauline Authority in the Epistolary and Historiographical Receptionsof the New Testament – A Phenomenological Approach Chapter 14 Rumour: A Category for Articulating the Self-Portraits andReception of Paul. ‘For they say, “His letters are weighty …but his speech is contemptible’” (2 Corinthians 10.10) I. Introduction II. ‘Remember my chains’ (Colossians 4.18) … and not ‘My Theology’.Towards a Pluralized Notion of ‘Paulinism’ III. Readdressing the Notion of Author in the Pauline Letters IV. The Lukan Reception of Paul V. Gladium stilo mutans: When the Figure of Paul is Standardized Chapter 15 ‘Working with One’s Hands’: One Model, Many Applications(Acts 20.33; 1 Timothy 5.17; 2 Thessalonians 3.7-10) I. Paul as a Model of Solidarity (Acts 20.33-35) II. An Income for the Elders of Ephesus? (1 Timothy 5.17) III. Not to Be a Burden to the Community (2 Thessalonians 3.7-10) IV. Paul, One Model, Many Applications: A Summary Chapter 16 ‘Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters’ (Philipp ians 3.17):Paul as an Exemplary Figure in the Pauline Corpus and theActs of the Apostles I. Introduction II. Paul’s Self-presentation and Exemplarity in the Pauline Corpus: theExample of Philippians 3 III. Paul, an ‘Exemplary’ Figure? What is in the Narrative Tradition ofthe Acts of the Apostles? IV. From Paul to Acts. In Search of a Basic Uniformity V. Conclusion Conclusion Mediator, Miracle-Worker, Doctor of the Church? TheContinuing Mystery of Paul in the New Testament and inEarly Christianity I. The Dissolution of Tendenzkritik through Multi-faceted Approaches to the ‘Thought’ of Paul and of Luke II. The Continuing ‘Sea Change’ of Luke as Promoter rather thanArchiver of Israel’s History and Heritage in the Messiah Jesus Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors