Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
The Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 31-53
Keywords:
Paul,
;
New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
;
Christian converts from Judaism Biography
Abstract:
‘Paul the “Convert”?’ has three goals: to track the history of this construction of Paul from its origins in antiquity through to the present; to examine scholarly assessments of its utility; and to offer a synthetic historical account of how and why Paul acted as he did to either side of his affiliation with the Jesus movement. In various sections the chapter examines the fundamental contributions of Munck, Stendahl, and Dahl and those of E. P. Sanders, James Dunn, and the so-called ‘New Perspective on Paul’; the work of Alan Segal, Daniel Boyarin, and N.T. Wright; and the proposals of Lloyd Gaston, John Gager, and Stanley Stowers. Finally, the chapter explores newer work arguing that both the content and the context of Paul’s mission to pagans continued to be Second Temple Judaism, inflected by the peculiar eschatology of the Jesus movement. For this reason, the essay concludes, Paul’s transformative experience is best conceptualized as his ‘call’.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199600489.013.22
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