View source for Paul the Jew (2014 Boccaccini), graduate course

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


[[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)

(8) 

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)


(11) 

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