Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, Eds. Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle

Thomas D Stegman

doi:10.6017/scjr.v10i1.9078

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Highlights

Not least is that the New Perspective (NP) can still perpetuate the notion that Paul, after his encounter with the risen Christ, found something inherently wrong with or deficient in Judaism
They point out that NP scholars tend to drive a wedge between Christianity and Judaism to a degree that was not true during Paul’s life and ministry
Any advocate of the NP stands to learn much from and to be challenged by these essays

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Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, Eds. Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015), paper, x + 350 pp. The contributions include: Magnus Zetterholm’s “Paul within Judaism: The State of the Questions”; Anders Runesson’s “The Question of Terminology: The Architecture of Contemporary Discussions on Paul”; Karin Hedner Zetterholm’s “The Question of Assumptions: Torah Observance in the First Century”; Nanos’s “The Question of Conceptualization: Qualifying Paul’s Position on Circumcision in Dialogue with Josephus’s Advisors to King Izates”; Caroline Johnson Hodge’s “The Question of Identity: Gentiles as Gentiles—and Not—in Paul’s Communities”; and Paula Fredriksen’s “The Question of Worship: Gods, Pagans, and the Redemption of Israel.” The editors solicited essays to address issues from the vantage point of political- and gender-criticism: Neil Elliott’s “The Question of Politics: Paul as a Diaspora Jew under Roman Rule” and Kathy Ehrensperger’s “The Question(s) of Gender: Relocating Paul in Relation to Judaism.” Lastly, the editors invited a critical response from Terence L.

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