Paul & Apocalypticism (2017 Boccaccini), graduate course

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Pre-requisites: Reading of the seven authentic letters of Paul, with special emphasis on Romans and Galatians.

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Introduction: The study of Jewish Apocalypticism

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Introduction: Paul the Jew

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Paul & the Apocalyptic Literature (I):

• Apocalyptic Interpretation of the Bible (2012 Oegema), book (includes Paul)

• Apocalypticism in the Bible and Its World (2012 Murphy), book (includes Paul)

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Paul & the Apocalyptic Literature (I|):

• Ultimate Things: An Introduction to Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature (2005 Carey), book

• The Apocalyptic Imagination, 3rd ed. (2016 Collins), book (does not include Paul)

• Jewish Apocalyptic and Its History = L’apocalittica giudaica e la sua storia (1996 @1990 Sacchi / Short), book (English ed.)

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The "Apocalytic" Paul: Some Early Studies

• (++) The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle = Die Mystik des Apostels Paulus (1931 Schweitzer / Montgomery), book (English ed.)

• < St. Paul's Opponents and Their Background (1973 Gunther), book <Apocalyptists are listed among Paul's Opponents>

• Paul's Apocalyptic Gospel: The Coming Triumph of God (1982 Beker), book

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Paul and Evil:

• The Reverse of the Curse: Paul, Wisdom, and the Law (2000 Pate), book (traditional approach)

• Paul and the Power of Sin (2002 Carter), book

• < Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (2011 Rosen-Zvi), book >

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• < Evil Within and Without: The Source of Sin and Its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature (2013 Brand), book >

• Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity (2016 Stuckenbruck, Keith), edited volume <Articles on Paul>
• Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (2016 Boccaccini, Segovia), edited volume

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• New Creation in Paul's Letters and Thought (2002 Hubbard), book

• Paul: A Jew on the Margins (2003 Roetzel), book

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Paul and Justification:

• Judgment & Justification in Early Judaism and the Apostle Paul (2006 VanLandingham), book

• The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul (2009 Campbell), book

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• The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios (2011 Waddell), book

• [[Eschatology of the Thessalonian correspondence (2014 Kucicki)
• Paul and the Apocalyptic Triumph: An Investigation of the Usage of Jewish and Greco-Roman Imagery in 1 Thess. 4:13-18 (2016 Peach), book

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Two recent books:

• Paul and the Apocalyptic Imagination (2016 Blackwell, Goodrich, Maston), edited volume

• Paul among the Apocalypses?: An Evaluation of the Apocalyptic Paul in the Context of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature (2016 Davies), book

New Perspective on Paul

Stendhal Sanders N.T. Wright

Radical New Perspective on Paul

• Paul and the Torah (1987 Gaston), book
• Paul and the Jewish Law (1990 Tomson), book
• A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles (1994 Stowers), book
• The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul’s Letter (1996 Nanos), book
• Paul the Jewish Theologian (1997 Young), book
• Reinventing Paul (2000 Gager), book
• The Irony of Galatians: Paul’s Letter in First-Century Context (2002 Nanos), book
• If Sons, Then Heirs: A Study of Kinship and Ethnicity in the Letters of Paul (2007 Hodge), book
• Paul Was Not a Christian (2009 Eisenbaum), book
• Approaches to Paul: A Student's Guide to Recent Scholarship (2009 Zetterholm), book
• A Jew to the Jews: Jewish Contours of Pauline Flexibility in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 (2011 Rudolph), book

Paul and Second Temple Judaism

• Paul the Convert (1990 Segal), book
• A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (1994 Boyarin), book
• Judgment & Justification in Early Judaism and the Apostle Paul (2006 VanLandingham), book
• The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios (2011 Waddell), book

• Paul and Qumran (1968 Murphy-O'Connor), edited volume
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature (2013 Rey), edited volume
• Paul & Judaism Revisited (2013 Sprinkle), book
• Jews and Gentiles in the Early Jesus Movement (2013 Bibliowicz), book

Video-Conferences in preparation

with Segovia

(1) General Introduction Paul the Jew Views of Paul in Judaism and Christianity before the 20th century - Schweitzer, Paul and His Interpreters: A Critical History (1911 [ET 1912])

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.1 (pt.1)

(2) The Rediscovery of the Jewishness of Paul (1900-1924)

- Thackeray (1900) - *Levertoff (1905) - Deissmann (1911 [ET 1926]) - *Montefiore (1914) - Phillimore (1920)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.1 (p.2)

(3) The Age of Anti-Semitism 1925-1949

- Knox (1925) - *Werfel, Paul among the Jews (1926 [ET 1928]) - *Levertoff, St. Paul in Jewish Thought (1928) - Windish (1935) - Parkes (1936) - *Klausner (1939 [ET 1942]) - *Asch 1943

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.2 (pt.1)

(4) After WW2 1950-1960

- *Schonfield, The Jew of Tarsus: An Unorthodox Portrait of Paul (1946) - Davies, Paul and Rabbinic Judaism (1948) - *Sandmel, The Genius of Paul (1958) - *Schoeps, Paulus: Die Theologie des Apostels im Lichte der jüdischen Religionsgeschichte (1959 [ET 1961]) - *Cornfeld, Daniel to Paul (1962)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.2 (pt.2)

(5) - Murphy-O'Connor, Paul and Qumran (1968) The Dead Sea Scrolls and Pauline Literature (2013 Rey), edited volume

- Bornkamm (1969 [ET 1971])

• Ben-Chorin (1970 [ET 1999])
• Rubenstein, My Brother Paul (1972)

Gunther (1973)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.3 (pt.1)

Meeting 3: The Beginning of the New Perspective

(6) Sanders Stendahl, Paul among Jews and Gentiles (1976) Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) Lapide (1981 [ET 1984]), Paul, Rabbi and Apostle Sanders, Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People (1983) Raisanen (1983)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.3 (pt.2)

(7) Lüdemann, Opposition to Paul (1983 [ET 1989)] Newton, The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul (1985) Watson (1986

• Maccoby (1986)

Richardson Anti’Judaism and Early Christianity

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.4 (pt.1)

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Video-conference with ??

Gaston, Paul and the Torah (1987) Dunn, Jesus, Paul, and the Law (1990)

• Segal, Paul the Convert (1990)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.4 (pt.2)

(9 ) Meeting 4: The New Perspective II (the 1990s) Vido-Conference with ??

• Boyarin A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (1994)

Stowers, A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles (1994)

• Nanos The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul’s Letter (1994)

- Lim, Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commentaries and Pauline Letters (1997) Kuula The Law, The Covenant and God’s Plan (2 vols)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.5 (pt.1)

(10) Meeting 5: The Newest Perspective (the 2000s)

Video-conference with ???

Gager, Reinventing Paul (2000) Das (2001) Justification and Variegated Nomism (2001-2004),

• Nanos, The Irony of Galatians: Paul?s Letter in First-Century Context (2002)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.5 (pt.2)

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Video-conference with ??

• Chilton (2004

Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment (2006 Barclay/Gathercole), edited volume Watson (2007)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.6 (pt.1)

(12) Contemporary developments (2009-2010)

Video-conference with ??

• Eisenbaum (2009)

Borg/Crossan (2009) Wright Zetterholm (2009) Langton (2010)

Reading (Greek text): Galatians ch.6 (pt.2)

(13) Meeting 6: Paul in Acts Jervell, The Theology of the Acts of the Apostles (1996)

Reading (Greek text): Selected passage from Acts

(14) Meeting 7: Paulinism and Matthew Sim, The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism (1998)

Reading (Greek text): Selected passages from Matthew

(15) Wrap-Up Meeting