Paul Among the Gentiles: A "Radical" Reading of Romans. Jacob P. B. Mortensen
Документальная литература. NET – Neutestamentliche Entwürfe zur Theologie
Paul Among the Gentiles: A "Radical" Reading of Romans
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isbn 9783772000751
Автор произведения Jacob P. B. Mortensen
Жанр Документальная литература
Серия NET – Neutestamentliche Entwürfe zur Theologie
Издательство Bookwire
This exciting new interpretation of Pauls Letter to the Romans approaches Pauls most famous letter from one of the newest scholarly positions within Pauline Studies: The Radical New Perspective on Paul (also known as Paul within Judaism). As a point of departure, the author takes Pauls self-designation in 11:13 as apostle to the gentiles as so determining for Pauls mission that the audience of the letter is perceived to be exclusively gentile. The study finds confirmation of this reading-strategy in the letters construction of the interlocutor from chapter 2 onwards. Even in 2:17, where Paul describes the interlocutor as someone who calls himself a Jew, it requests to perceive this person as a gentile who presents himself as a Jew and not an ethnic Jew. If the interlocutor is perceived in this way throughout the letter, the dialogue between Paul and the interlocutor can be perceived as a continuous, unified and developing dialogue. In this way, this interpretation of Romans sketches out a position against a more disparate and fragmentary interpretation of Romans.