Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity examines the historical context of Paul and the way Pauls Jewish heritage was received. Contributors take into consideration the aftermath of the Jewish War and its impact on the development of the Jesus movement and early Christian-Jewish relations in the following period. The chapters come to the conclusion that after the Jewish War, the reception of the authentic Paul was transformed more and more into the tradition about Paul, based and established by the second and third generations of Jesus-believing Gentiles, which perceived Paul as a convert from what is labeled Judaism () to the complete opposite of it, Christianity ().
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Anyone researching Paul and his early reception will appreciate the variety of approaches and depth of scholarship undertaken in these essays by leading international New Testament scholars. Thank you Professor Abel and contributors for yet again advancing new, innovative developments in the field of within Judaism and related Pauline studies. -- Mark D. Nanos, Lund University; author of Reading Paul within Judaism
Introduction
Frantiek Ábel
Part 1: Knowing Whats What in the Early Reception of Paul the Apostle
Chapter 1: Correcting Some Misperceptions About Paul
James H. Charlesworth
Chapter 2: Observations on the Reception of the Pauline Expression Works of
the Law
Michael Bachmann
Chapter 3: The Perception of Pauls Social Influence in the Corinthian
Correspondence
J. Brian Tucker
Chapter 4: Jezebel, Paul, and the Problem of Mixed Marriage. A Contested
Reception of 1 Corinthians at the End of the First Century?
Paul B. Duff
Chapter 5: The Triumph of Paul in Portraits of Peter
Joshua D. Garroway
Part 2: The Early Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Deutero-Pauline
Letters
Chapter 6: The Pastoral Epistles and the Jewish Paul
Stefan Krauter
Chapter 7: The Role of Women in Teaching and LearningPauline Trajectories in
Acts and in the Pastorals?
Kathy Ehrensperger
Chapter 8: Colossian Philosophy and Torah: Paul in a New Context (Col
2:623)
Karl Olav Sandnes
Chapter 9: The Man of Lawlessness as an Eschatological Enemy in Second
Thessalonians and its Second Temple Period Jewish Background
Kenneth Atkinson
Chapter 10: Ephesians as the Quintessence of Pauline Deracination
Neil Elliott
Part 3: The Early Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Acts of the Apostles
Chapter 11: From Pharisee to Ascetic. The Shift of the Image of the Apostle
Paul in the Literature of the Genre of Acts
Jií Luke
Chapter 12: Pauls Torah Observance According to Acts in Light of Recent
Reconfigurations of Pauls Jewishness
Ruben A. Bühner
Chapter 13: The Image of Paul in Acts Missionary Speeches
Istvan M. Ledán
Chapter 14: Paul in Acts 16:1821 in the Context of Roman Law
Valéria Terézia Daniaková
Chapter 15: Justification and Salvation in Paul and Acts: A Reading Within
Second Temple Judaism
Gabriele Boccaccini
Part 4: The Other Receptions of Paul the Apostle
Chapter 16: How Pauline is the Gospel of John?
Eric Noffke
Chapter 17: The Epistle to the Hebrews as a Consoling Appeal to Ostracized
Jewish Christ-followers: Reception of Jewish Paul in Hebrews
Pavel Paluchník
Chapter 18: . Ignatius Reception of Paul and Jewishness
in the Antiochian Context: Another Piece of the Mosaic
Frantiek Ábel
Part 5: Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: A Critical
Evaluation from Second Temple Judaism Research
Chapter 19: Correcting Some Misperceptions About New Testament Translation:
A Response to A Presupposition in James H. Charlesworths Correcting Some
Misperceptions About Paul
Hans Förster
Chapter 20: Perspectives on Perspectives: Overall Response to Presented
Contributions
Daniel Boyarin
Frantiek Ábel is professor of New Testament at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
