Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity

ISBN 10: 1978715811 / ISBN 13: 9781978715813

Published by Fortress Academic, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity
• Publisher: Fortress Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978715811
• ISBN 13: 9781978715813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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” (?ουδα?σμ?ς) to the complete opposite of it, “Christianity” (Χριστιανισμ?ς).

About the Authors

František Ábel is professor of New Testament at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Kenneth Atkinson is Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.

Gabriele Boccaccini is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Early Rabbinic Literature at the University of Michigan, USA.

James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Director and Editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

Kathy Ehrensperger is Research Professor New Testament in Jewish Perspective, Abraham GeigerCollege, at the University of Potsdam, Germany.