Paul the Jew (2019 Boccaccini), graduate course

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Paul the Jew is a course offered by Gabriele Boccaccini at the University of Michigan in the Fall 2019.

Description

Paul the Apostle weighs the cumbersome reputation that indicates him as the first great systematic theologian of nascent Christianity, but also weighs the suspicion - if not the accusation - of having contributed decisively to the separation between Christianity and Judaism and to have thrown the basis of a poisonous polemic against the Torah and the people of Israel, a harbinger of prejudice, intolerance and discrimination, up to the Holocaust tragedy. And yet there's something not quite right about this view of Paul. Among the leaders of early Jesus movement, Paul was the one who most strongly claimed his Jewishness, defended the irrevocability of the divine promises withIsrael, and with more readiness reiterated the "privileges" of the Jews in the face of the zeal of the new converts among the Gentiles. The course explores the complex relation between Paul and Judaism as seen by scholars and Christian and Jewish authors.

Syllabus

<1> Introduction: Galatians 1-2

<2-3> <History of interpretation>

<4-5> The Christian Paul: Thackeray

Henry St. John Thackeray, The Relation of St. Paul to Contemporary Jewish Thought (1900)

  • Chapter I. Introduction
  • Chapter II. Sin and Adam
  • Chapter III. The Law
  • Chapter IV. Justification by Faith or Works
  • Chapter V. Eschatology
  • Chapter VI. The World of Spirits
  • Chapter VII. Use of the Old Testament
  • Chapter VIII. St. Paul the Haggadist
  • Chapter IX. Literary Connexions

<6-7> Montefiore


The Jewish Paul, early approaches: Montefiore, Davies, Sandmel.

E.P. Sanders

Gager, Paula Fredriksen,



Neo-Lutheran Approach.





<< WORK IN PROGRESS >>


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 Second Temple Judaism

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

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