Paul the Jew (2014 Boccaccini), graduate course
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Syllabus
Pre-requisites: Reading of the seven authentic letters of Paul, with special emphasis on Romans and Galatians.
Stendhal Sanders N.T. Wright
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
Segal, Paul the Convert (1990)
- Boyarin A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (1994)
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
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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)
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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)
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- 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)
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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)
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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