The Nondivisive Difference of Election: A Reading of Romans 9–11

Abstract

Abstract This article reads Rom 9–11 as an articulation of the "divine difference" (or the difference between God and creation). It argues that the distinction between Israel and the nations made by God's election of Israel is precisely a manifestation of the divine difference within creation. It shows, further, that this sort of reading is able to counter anti-Jewish appropriation of Paul, arguing that the binary logic of anti-Judaism is fundamentally at odds with the logic of Paul's nondivisive difference between Israel and the nations.