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Book Review of “Paul within Judaism: The State of the Questions”
I may not be inclined to agree with the late Christopher Hitchens that religion poisons everything, but in the case of Pauline studies it could, however, easily be argued that research discipline has...
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Book Review of Paul Within Judaism, “The Question of Assumptions: Torah...
Much of the debate about whether Paul was a representative of first-century Judaism has centered on the question of his relationship to Jewish “law,” that is, Torah. Although a majority of proponents...
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Book Review of Paul within Judaism, “The Question of Conceptualization:...
Jews practicing Judaism in the first century observed the rite of circumcision, so it may seem natural enough to conclude that Paul’s arguments depreciating, when not opposing, circumcision undermine...
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Book Review of Paul Within Judaism, The Question of Identity: Gentiles as...
I have long puzzled over how to understand the gentiles in Paul, both from his perspective and their own perspective. I operate under the assumption that he is writing primarily to them and his goal is...
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Book Review of Paul Within Judaism, “The Question of Politics: Paul as a...
The measure of Paul’s Jewish identity remains a matter of considerable controversy in current scholarship. As Pamela Eisenbaum observes, the question has provoked anxiety among some scholars, and not...
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