Category:Paul within Judaism (subject)

Paul the Jew

Cf. Magnus Zetterholm, Approaches to Paul: A Student's Guide to Recent Scholarship (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009). Michael F. Bird, ed., Four Views on the Apostle Paul (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012); N. T. Wright, Paul and His Recent Interpreters (London: SPCK, 2015); Scot McKnight and B. J. Oropeza, eds., Perspectives on Paul: Five Views (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2020); Ben Witherington and Jason A. Myers, Voices and Views on Paul: Exploring Scholarly Tre nds (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2020).

Pioneers

William D. Davies, Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline The-ology (London: SPCK, 1948)
Johannes Munck, Paul and the Salvation of Mankind (Lon-don: SCM, 1959); idem, Christ and Israel: An Interpretation of Romans 9–11 (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress, 1967).
Markus Barth, “Jews and Gentiles: The Social Character of Justification in Paul,” JES 5 (19 6 8) : 241 – 6 7.7 Markus Barth, “Der gute Jude Paulus,” in Richte unsere Füße auf den Weg des Friedens, ed. Andreas Baudis, Dieter Clausert, Volkhard Schliski, and Bernhard Wegener, FS Helmut Gollwitzer (München: Christian Kaiser, 1979), 107–37; repr. “St. Paul – A Good Jew,” HBT 1(1979): 7–45. See reflections on Markus Barth’s article by Stanley E. Porter, “Was Paul a Good Jew? Fundamental Issues in a Current Debate,” in Christian-Jewish Relations Through the Centuries, ed. Stanley E. Porter and Brook W. R. Pearson, JSNTSup 192 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), 148–74.
“The New Perspective on Paul” (NPP) -- E. P. Sanders, James D. G. Dunn, N. T. Wright, Terence Donaldson, and Bruce Longenecker.
"The Radical Paul Perspective" (RP)
- Lloyd Gaston, Paul and the Torah (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987)
- Stanley K. Stowers, A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews and Gentiles (New Haven and London: Yale, 1994)
- John Gager, Reinventing Paul (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

The Paul within Judaism Movement

Collective works:

Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, eds., Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2015)
Gabriele Boccaccini and Carlos A. Segovia, eds., Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2016)
František Ábel, ed., The Message of Paul the Apostle within Second Temple Judaism (Lanham: Lexington, 2020)
Michael Bird, Ruben A. Bühner, Jörg Frey, and Brian Rosner, eds. Paul within Judaism: Perspectives on Paul and Jewish Identity. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 507. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.

Survey of scholarship:

Mark D. Nanos, “A Jewish View,” in Four Views on the Apostle Paul, ed. Michael F. Bird (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012), 159–92
Magnus Zetterholm, “The Paul within Judaism Perspective,” in Perspectives on Paul: Five Views, ed. Scot McKnight and B. J. Oropeza (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2020), 171–218
Matthew V. Novenson, "Whither the Paul within Judaism Schule?" JJMJS No. 5 (2018) 79-88.
Paula Fredriksen, "What Does It Mean to See Paul ‘with-in Judaism,’” JBL 141 (2022) 359–80.

Major symposia

2010

Fist meeting of the Paul-within-Judaism Group at the SBL, under the heads of Mark Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm.

2014

Enoch Seminar / Nangeroni Meeting in Rome: "Re-Reading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author"

2016

Enoch Seminar / Nangeroni Meeting in Rome: "Re-Reading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author"

2018

Enoch Seminar Colloquium at the SBL: “Paul the Jew: A Discussion with Mark Nanos and Gabriele Boccaccini”

The goal of the meeting (chaired by Isaac Oliver) is to have a conversation between Pauline scholars and Second Temple specialists on how to read Paul as a Second Temple author within the diversity of 1st century Judaism. Articles selected for the basis of conversation will be distributed prior to the meeting. A panel consisting of Isaac Oliver, Kathy Ehrensperger, and Loren Stuckenbruck will introduce the general discussion.

2021

Online symposium