Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries

Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity

František Ábel

• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781978715820
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

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 Paul's 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" (???da?sµ??) to the complete opposite of it, "Christianity" (???st?a??sµ??).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Knowing What’s What in the Early Reception of Paul the Apostle
• Chapter 1: Correcting Some Misperceptions About Paul
• Chapter 2: Observations on the Reception of the Pauline Expression “Works of the Law”
• Chapter 3: The Perception of Paul’s Social Influence in the Corinthian Correspondence
• Chapter 4: “Jezebel,” Paul, and the Problem of Mixed Marriage: A Contested Reception of 1 Corinthians at the End of the First Century?
• Chapter 5: The Triumph of Paul in Portraits of Peter
• Part II: The Early Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Deutero-Pauline Letters
• Chapter 6: The Pastoral Epistles and the Jewish Paul
• Chapter 7: The Role of Women in Teaching and Learning: Pauline Trajectories in Acts and in the Pastorals?
• Chapter 8: Colossian “Philosophy” and Torah: Paul in a New Context (Col 2:6–23)
• Chapter 9: The “Man of Lawlessness” as an Eschatological Enemy in 2 Thessalonians and Its Second Temple Period Jewish Background
• Chapter 10: Ephesians as the Quintessence of Pauline Deracination
• Part III: 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
• Chapter 12: Paul’s Torah Observance According to Acts in Light of Recent Reconfigurations of Paul’s Jewishness
• Chapter 13: The Image of Paul in Acts’s Missionary Speeches
• Chapter 14: Paul in Acts 16:18–21 in the Context of Roman Law
• Chapter 15: Justification and Salvation in Paul and Acts: A Reading “Within Second Temple Judaism”
• Part IV: The Other Receptions of Paul the Apostle
• Chapter 16: How Pauline Is the Gospel of John?
• Chapter 17: The Epistle to the Hebrews as a Consoling Appeal to Ostracized Jewish Christ-followers: Reception of Jewish Paul in Hebrews
• Chapter 18: Παύλου συμμύσται ἐστε. Ignatius’s Perception of Paul and Jewishness in the Antiochian Context: Another Piece of the Mosaic
• Part V: 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. Charlesworth’s “Correcting Some Misperceptions About Paul”
• Chapter 20: Perspectives on Perspectives: Overall Response to Presented Contributions
• About the Contributors