Paul and the Heritage of Israel

Paul's Claim upon Israel's Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters

David P. Moessner, Daniel Marguerat, Mikeal C. Parsons, Michael Wolter, David P. Moessner, Daniel Marguerat, Mikeal C. Parsons, Michael Wolter

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780567108166
• eBook ISBN: 9780567293985
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

As a sequel to the hugely successful Jesus and the Heritage of Israel, this book brings together fourteen internationally acclaimed scholars in antiquities studies and experts on Paul and Luke. The contributors provoke new approaches to the troubled relation of the Lukan Paul by re-configuring the figure and impact of Paul upon nascent Christianity, with the two leading questions as a driving force. First, 'Who is "Israel" and the "church" for Luke and Luke's Paul' and secondly 'Who is Jesus of Nazareth and who is Paul in relation to both?' The contributors provide challenging new perspectives on approaches to the figure of Paul in recent scholarship as well as in the scholarship of previous generations, 're-figuring' Paul by examining both how he is portrayed in Acts, and how the Pauline figure of Acts may be envisioned within Paul's own writings. Paul and the Heritage of Israel thus accomplishes what no other single volume has done: combining both the 'Paul of Paul' and the 'Paul of Luke' in one seminal volume.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I Re-figuring Paul
• Chapter 1 On the “Paulinism” of Acts
• Chapter2 The Paul of Luke. A Survey of Research
• Chapter3 The Paulinism of Acts, Intertextually Reconsidered
• Chapter4 The Development of Pauline Christianity from a ‘Religion ofConversion’ to a ‘Religion of Tradition
• Chapter 5 Paul After Paul: a (Hi)story of Reception
• Chapter 6 Paul’s Plac e in Early Christianity
• Part II The Figure and Legac y of Paul in the Book of Acts
• Chapter7 Luke’s ‘Witness of Witnesses’: Paul as Definer and Defenderof the Tradition of the Apostles – ‘from the Beginning’
• Chapter 8 ‘Has God Rejected His People?’ (Romans 11.1).The Salvation of Israel in Acts: Narrative Claim of aPauline Legac y
• Chapter9 (Not) App ealing to the Emperor: Acts (and the Acts of Paul)
• Chapter 10 In Paul’s Defence: The Contribution of Cramer’s Catena tothe Early Reception of Paul in Acts
• Part III The Pauline Figure of Acts within the PaulineLegacy
• Chapter11 Paul the Founder of the Church: Reflections on theReception of Paul in the Acts of the Apostles and thePastoral Epistles
• Chapter 12 From the ‘Least of All the Saints’ to the ‘Apostle of JesusChrist’: The Transformation of Paul in the First Century
• Appendix 1
• Chapter 13 Auctoritas Pauli acc ording to the Deutero-Pauline Literature and the Acts of the Apostles
• Chapter 14 Rumour: A Category for Articulating the Self-Portraits andReception of Paul. ‘For they say, “His letters are weighty …but his speech is contemptible’” (2 Corinthians 10.10)
• Chapter 15 ‘Working with One’s Hands’: One Model, Many Applications(Acts 20.33; 1 Timothy 5.17; 2 Thessalonians 3.7-10)
• Chapter 16 ‘Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters’ (Philipp ians 3.17):Paul as an Exemplary Figure in the Pauline Corpus and theActs of the Apostles
• Conclusion Mediator, Miracle-Worker, Doctor of the Church? TheContinuing Mystery of Paul in the New Testament and inEarly Christianity
• Bibliography
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Index of Modern Authors